Biology:Longetia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Longetia
Longetia buxoides.jpg
Longetia buxoides
Scientific classification edit
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
Baill.
Synonyms[1]
  • Austrobuxus buxoides (Baill.) Airy Shaw
  • Austrobuxus gracilis Airy Shaw
  • Austrobuxus pisocarpus Airy 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


See also

  • Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=115088. 
  2. Baillon, Henri Ernest (1866). "Adansonia 6" (in French). Description du Genre Longetia. pp. 352–359. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6524638#page/353/mode/1up. 
  3. "Longetia Baill.". http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40008535. 
  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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q15357231 entry