Harrisonia

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Harrisonia
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Harrisonia abyssinica
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Cneoroideae
Genus: Harrisonia
R.Br. ex A.Juss. [1]
Synonyms [2]
  • EbelingiaRchb.
  • LasiolepisBenn.

Harrisonia is a small genus of flowering plants in the subfamily Cneoroideae of the Rutaceae (citrus family). [3] [4] Older taxonomic treatments have placed this genus in the Simaroubaceae. [2]

Species

Plants of the World Online currently includes: [2]

  1. Harrisonia abyssinica Oliv. - Africa
  2. Harrisonia brownii A.Juss. - type species [5] with a discontinuous range from the Andaman Islands to Malesia and New Guinea [2]
  3. Harrisonia perforata (Blanco) Merr. - China and Indochina

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References

  1. Brown R (1825) Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 12: 517.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Harrisonia". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  3. Appelhans, Marc S.; Bayly, Michael J.; Heslewood, Margaret M.; Groppo, Milton; Verboom, G. Anthony; Forster, Paul I.; Kallunki, Jacquelyn A. & Duretto, Marco F. (2021), "A new subfamily classification of the Citrus family (Rutaceae) based on six nuclear and plastid markers", Taxon, doi: 10.1002/tax.12543 , hdl: 11343/288824
  4. NCBI: Cneoroideae
  5. Tropicos: Harrisonia R. Br. ex A. Juss.