Schoutenia

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Schoutenia
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Schoutenia ovata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Schoutenia
Korth. (1848) [1]
Species

10, see text

Synonyms [1]
  • ActinophoraWall. (1852)
  • ChartacalyxMaingay ex Mast. (1874)
  • SicreaHallier f. (1921)

Schoutenia is a genus of flowering plants. It ranges from Indochina through Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Northern Australia. [1]

Contents

Traditionally included in the family Tiliaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. Pieter Willem Korthals described it in 1847/8 and named it after the explorer Willem Schouten. [2]

Species

There are ten accepted species. [1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Schoutenia Korth. Plants of the World Online , Kew Science. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z, Taylor & Francis US, 2000, p. 2422

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