Sagotia is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1860.Tropicos, Sagotia Baill.Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1860. Adansonia 1: 53-54 It is native to northern South America.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Species Sagotia brachysepala (Müll.Arg.) Secco - French Guinea, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil Sagotia racemosa Baill. - French Guinea, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil; possibly Panama + Costa Rica
Formerly included moved to Morierina (Rubiaceae) Sagotia gardenioides - Morierina montana (Rubiaceae)
Names in homonym genusTropicos, Sagotia Duchassaing & Walpers In 1851, Duchassaing & Walpers used the same generic name, Sagotia, to refer to a very different plant.Duchassaing de Fontbressin, Édouard Placide & Walpers, Wilhelm Gerhard . 1851. Linnaea : Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange 23(6): 737-739 in Latin Ordinarily, the rules of nomenclature mandate that the older name should be considered legitimate, while the newer one would need to be abandoned. In this case, however, the decision was made to conserve the newer name and reject the older one. Thus the one name in the older name was changed as follows: Sagotia triflora (L.) Duchass. & Walp. - Desmodium triflorum (L.) DC.
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