Ruagea

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Ruagea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Subfamily: Melioideae
Genus: Ruagea
H.Karst.
Species

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Ruagea is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae. [1] It includes nine species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Guatemala to Venezuela and Bolivia. [2] Most species are small or medium-sized trees native to montane rain forest and cloud forest in the Andes and Central American mountains, while Ruagea glabra and R. insignis also grow in lowland rain forests. [3]

Species

Nine species are accepted. [2]

References

  1. "Ruagea H.Karst". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000. n.d. Retrieved February 2, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Ruagea H.Karst". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  3. Blanca M Rojas-Andrés, Yuliia Lihanova, Terence D Pennington, Alexandra N Muellner-Riehl, Phylogenetics of the Andean tree genus Ruagea (Meliaceae): implications for taxonomy, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 201, Issue 4, April 2023, Pages 443–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac068