About Magonia pubescens A.St.-Hil.
The plant genus Magonia A.St.-Hil. belongs to the family Sapindaceae. Only one species within this genus is currently accepted: Magonia pubescens A.St.-Hil. This species is a tree native to tropical South America, with a distribution that extends from northern Brazil through Bolivia and Paraguay to northeastern Argentina. The name Magonia Vell. is an illegitimate homonym, and is now treated as a synonym of the genus Ruprechtia, which belongs to the family Polygonaceae.
