Biology:Ruagea
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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]
- Ruagea glabra Triana & Planch.
- (C.DC.) Harms W.Palacios
- (C.DC.) Harms Ruagea tomentosa
- Ruagea microphylla Cuatrec.
- Ruagea insignis W.Palacios
- Ruagea ovalis Ruagea hirsuta
- (C.DC.) T.D.Penn. (Rusby) Harms
- Ruagea pubescens Ruagea membranacea
- H.Karst. Ruagea subviridiflora
References
- ↑ "Ruagea H.Karst.". Species 2000. n.d.. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/63S9H.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ruagea H.Karst.". The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d.. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26831-1.
- ↑ 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
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