Longetia

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Longetia
Longetia buxoides.jpg
Longetia buxoides
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Caletieae
Subtribe: Dissiliariinae
Genus: Longetia
Baill.
Species:
L. buxoides
Binomial name
Longetia buxoides
Synonyms [1]
  • Austrobuxus buxoides(Baill.) Airy Shaw
  • Austrobuxus gracilisAiry Shaw
  • Austrobuxus pisocarpusAiry Shaw

Longetia is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae first described as a genus in 1866. [2] [3] It has only one known species, Longetia buxoides, endemic to New Caledonia. [1] [4]

formerly included [1]

moved to other genera: Austrobuxus Scagea

  1. L. carunculata - Austrobuxus carunculatus
  2. L. clusiacea - Austrobuxus clusiaceus
  3. L. depauperata - Scagea depauperata
  4. L. eugeniifolia - Austrobuxus eugeniifolius
  5. L. gynotricha - Scagea oligostemon
  6. L. malayana - Austrobuxus nitidus
  7. L. montana - Austrobuxus nitidus
  8. L. nitida - Austrobuxus nitidus
  9. L. swainii - Austrobuxus swainii

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  2. Baillon, Henri Ernest (1866). "Adansonia 6". Description du Genre Longetia (in French). pp. 352–359.
  3. "Longetia Baill". Tropicos.
  4. Govaerts, R.; Frodin, D. G.; Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. Kew: The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens.