Meliosma

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iMeliosma

Meliosma veitchiorum

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Sabiales
Family:	Sabiaceae
Genus:	Meliosma Blume

Species

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Meliosma (syn. Millingtonia Roxb., Wellingtonia Meisn.) is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. Some botanists (e.g. van Beusekom 1971) take a much more conservative veiw of the species, accepting only 20-25 as distinct species.

The species are trees or shrubs, growing to 10-45 m tall.

[edit] Selected species

Asia

Meliosma angustifolia
Meliosma arnottiana
Meliosma beaniana
Meliosma bifida
Meliosma callicarpaefolia
Meliosma cuneifolia
Meliosma dilleniifolia
Meliosma dumicola
Meliosma flexuosa
Meliosma fordii
Meliosma glandulosa
Meliosma henryi
Meliosma kirkii
Meliosma laui
Meliosma longipes
Meliosma myriantha
Meliosma oldhamii
Meliosma parviflora
Meliosma paupera
Meliosma pinnata
Meliosma rhoifolia
Meliosma rigida
Meliosma simplicifolia
Meliosma squamulata
Meliosma sumatrana
Meliosma thomsonii
Meliosma thorelii
Meliosma veitchiorum
Meliosma velutina
Meliosma yunnanensis

Americas

Meliosma alba
Meliosma bogotana
Meliosma brasiliensis
Meliosma frondosa
Meliosma glaziovii
Meliosma itatiaiae
Meliosma meridensis
Meliosma sellowii
Meliosma sinuata

Fossil evidence shows the genus formerly had a much wider range in the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and central Asia until the late Pliocene ice ages, and somewhat earlier in North America (van Beusekom 1971).