Nesogordonia
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| Nesogordonia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Subfamily: | Dombeyoideae |
| Genus: | Nesogordonia Baill. |
| Species | |
|
Several, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cistanthera K.Schum.[1] | |
Nesogordonia is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. In that clade, it belongs to the subfamily Dombeyoideae. Nesogordonia is among the oldest living genera of its subfamily, if not the most ancestral one.[2]
Species include:
- Nesogordonia macrophylla Arénes
- Nesogordonia papaverifera
Footnotes
References
- Cao, Nathanaël; Le Pechon, Timothée & Zaragüeta-Bagils, René (2006): Does minimizing homoplasy really maximize homology? MaHo: A method for evaluating homology among most parsimonious trees. C. R. Palevol 7(1): 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2007.12.008 (HTML abstract)
- Hinsley, Stewart R. (2007): Synonymy of Malvaceae. Retrieved 2008-JUN-25.
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