Mortoniodendron

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Mortoniodendron
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Mortoniodendron
Standl. & Steyerm.
Synonyms
  • OrthandraBurret
  • WestphalinaA.Robyns & Bamps

Mortoniodendron is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. [1]

Its native range is southern Mexico to Colombia. It is also found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panamá. [1] Fossils indicate that it has been in its present range since the Miocene. Eocene-aged pollen from Europe and Southern China attributable to the genus indicate a wider distribution in the Northern Hemisphere in the past. [2]

The genus name of Mortoniodendron is in honour of Conrad Vernon Morton (1905–1972), an American botanist who did notable writings on Ferns. [3] It was first described and published in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Series 17 on page 411 in 1938. [1]

Known species

According to Kew: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mortoniodendron Standl. & Steyerm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  2. Hofmann, Christa-Ch.; Kodrul, Tatiana M.; Liu, Xiaoyan; Jin, Jianhua (June 2019). "Scanning electron microscopy investigations of middle to late Eocene pollen from the Changchang Basin (Hainan Island, South China) – Insights into the paleobiogeography and fossil history of Juglans, Fagus, Lagerstroemia, Mortoniodendron, Cornus, Nyssa, Symplocos and some Icacinaceae in SE Asia". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 265: 41–61. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.02.004. S2CID   134630351.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID   187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.