Atuna

Atuna
Makita Tree, Atuna racemosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Chrysobalanaceae
Genus: Atuna
Raf., 1838[1]
Type species
Atuna racemosa
Raf.
Synonyms[2]
  • Cyclandrophora Hassk.
  • Entosiphon Bedd.

Atuna is a genus of plants in the Chrysobalanaceae family described as a genus in 1838.[3][1][4]

Atuna is native to India, Southeast Asia, and various islands of the western Pacific[2]

Species[2]
  1. Atuna cordata Cockburn ex Prance - Sabah
  2. Atuna elliptica (Kosterm.) Kosterm. - Fiji
  3. Atuna indica (Bedd.) Kosterm. - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
  4. Atuna latifrons (Kosterm.) Prance & F.White - Perak
  5. Atuna nannodes (Kosterm.) Kosterm. - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo
  6. Atuna penangiana (Kosterm.) Kosterm. - Peninsular Malaysia
  7. Atuna racemosa Raf. - S Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon, Bismarck, Santa Cruz, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Wallis & Futuna, Caroline
  8. Atuna travancorica (Bedd.) Kosterm. - Kerala

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, Atuna Raf.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Sylva telluriana : Mantis. synopt. : new genera and species of trees and shrubs of North America, and other regions of the earth : omitted or mistaken by the botanical authors and compilers, or not properly classified, now reduced by their natural affinities to the proper natural orders and tribes 153-154 description in Latin, commentary in English
  4. Prance, G. T. & F. White. 1988. The genera of Chrysobalanaceae: a study in practical and theoretical taxonomy and its relevance to evolutionary biology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 320: 1–184.