Osmelia

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Osmelia
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Osmelia grandistipulata in Singapore
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Subfamily: Samydoideae
Genus: Osmelia
Thwaites
Type species
Osmelia gardneri
Thwaites
Species

Four (4). See text.

Synonyms

Osmelia is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae. [1] Osmelia includes four species of trees native to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. [2] [3] Osmelia is closely related to the monotypic Pseudosmelia of Morotai and Halmahera of the Indonesian Maluku Islands and to the monotypic Ophiobotrys from west and west-central tropical Africa.

List of species

References

  1. ↑ Chase, Mark W.; Sue Zmarzty; M. Dolores Lledó; Kenneth J. Wurdack; Susan M. Swensen; Michael F. Fay (2002). "When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences". Kew Bulletin. 57 (1): 141–181. Bibcode:2002KewBu..57..141C. doi:10.2307/4110825. JSTOR   4110825.
  2. ↑ Sleumer, Hermann (1954). "Flacourtiaceae". Flora Malesiana. Series 1. 5: 1–106.
  3. ↑ Verdcourt, B. (1996). "Flacourtiaceae". Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon. Vol. 10. pp. 199–235.
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