Symphonia (genus)
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Symphonia is a genus of tropical woody plants in the family Clusiaceae. The genus has its diversity center in Madagascar and 1 species (Symphonia globulifera) disjunct in Africa and the Neotropics, specially in Amazon Rainforest.
Because of this particular distribution pattern, the origin of the genus is controversial: two hypotheses have been proposed, one suggesting an African origin, the other a Madagascar origin.
