Turraea

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Turraea
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Turraea pubescens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Meliaceae
Subfamily: Melioideae
Genus: Turraea
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Species

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Synonyms [1]
  • CalodryumDesv.
  • GilibertiaJ.F.Gmel.
  • GinnaniaM.Roem.
  • GrevellinaBaill.
  • NurmoniaHarms [lower-alpha 1]
  • PayeriaBaill.
  • QuivisiaComm. ex Juss.
  • RutaeaM.Roem.
  • ScyphostigmaM.Roem.
  • StephanosiphonBoivin ex C.DC.

Turraea is a genus of plants in the family Meliaceae, native to the Old World tropics and subtropics.

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Range

The genus is native to the countries of Angola, Australia (Queensland and New South Wales), Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China (southeast, Hainan), Comoros, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Indonesia (Java, Lesser Sunda Islands and Western New Guinea), Ivory Coast, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia (Caprivi Strip), Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa (Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal and northern provinces), Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1]

Systematics

The genus contains approximately 70 species, including:

Notes

  1. ↑ One anagram of this genus name yields Munronia , another closely related genus of Meliaceae. [2] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Turraea L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  2. ↑ Bennett, M. I. J. (1841). "Révision des genres Turraea and Munronia". Annales des sciences naturelles: Botanique (in French). Fortin, Masson et Cie. pp. 83–96.
  3. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. M66. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID   187926901.

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