Brachychiton albidus

Brachychiton albidus
	NSW835223 (image CC-BY 4.0 from National Herbarium of New South Wales)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Brachychiton
Species:	B. albidus
Binomial name
	Brachychiton albidus; Guymer

Last updated October 23, 2025

Brachychiton albidus is a tree of the genus Brachychiton ^[a] native to Queensland, Australia. It was described in 1988.^[2]

Notes

↑ The genus Brachychiton was traditionally placed in the family Sterculiaceae, but that family, along with Bombacaceae and Tiliaceae, has been found to be polyphyletic and is now sunk into a more broadly-defined Malvaceae ^[1]

References

↑ Stevens, Peter F. (29 January 2015). "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website" . Retrieved 6 February 2015.
↑ Guymer, Gordon Paul (1988). "A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 1 (3): 199–323. Bibcode:1988AuSyB...1..199G. doi:10.1071/SB9880199.

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[2] The genus Brachychiton was traditionally placed in the family Sterculiaceae, but that family, along with Bombacaceae and Tiliaceae, has been found to be polyphyletic and is now sunk into a more broadly-defined Malvaceae ^[1]

[1] Stevens, Peter F. (29 January 2015). "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website" . Retrieved 6 February 2015.

[Guymer_1988-3] Guymer, Gordon Paul (1988). "A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 1 (3): 199–323. Bibcode:1988AuSyB...1..199G. doi:10.1071/SB9880199.

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