Pennantia

Pennantiaceae
P. corymbosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Pennantiaceae
J.Agardh[1]
Genus: Pennantia
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Type species
Pennantia corymbosa
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Pennantia is the sole genus in the plant family Pennantiaceae. In older classifications, it was placed in the family Icacinaceae.[2] Most authorities have recognised three or four species, depending on whether they recognised Pennantia baylisiana as a separate species from Pennantia endlicheri.[3] Mabberley, however, has recognised only two species.[4] Pennantia species grow naturally in New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and eastern Australia. In Australia, P. cunninghamii grows across a broad latitudinal natural range (nearly 3,000 km (1,900 mi)), from the south coast of New South Wales northwards through to north eastern Queensland.

Species

The following four species were recognised by Gardner and de Lange in 2002.[3]

References

  1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
  2. Kårehed, Jesper (2003). "The family Pennantiaceae and its relationships to Apiales". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.00110.x.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gardner, Rhys O.; de Lange, Peter J. (2002). "Revision of Pennantia (Icacinaceae), a small isolated genus of Southern Hemisphere trees". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 32 (4): 669–695. doi:10.1080/03014223.2002.9517715.
  4. Mabberley, David J. (2008). Mabberley's Plant-Book (third ed.). UK: Cambridge University Press.

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