Pottingeria
| Pottingeria | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Pottingeria |
| Species: | P. acuminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Pottingeria acuminata | |
Pottingeria is a genus consisting of a single species, Pottingeria acuminata, a small tree or large shrub native to mountainous areas of southeast Asia (Assam, Myanmar, and Thailand).[1]
It had long been thought, at least by some, to belong in the order Celastrales.[1] In a phylogenetic study of that order in 2006, Pottingeria was found to be a member of the order, but not of any of its families. It was in an unresolved pentatomy consisting of Parnassiaceae, Pottingeria, Mortonia, the pair (Quetzalia + Zinowiewia), and the other genera of Celastraceae.[2] When the APG III system was published in October 2009, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group expanded Celastraceae to include all members of the pentatomy mentioned above.[3] Armen Takhtajan had placed Pottingeria in a monotypic family in 1987,[4] but he later treated it as a subfamily of Celastraceae.[5]
References
- 1 2 Herbert K. Airy-Shaw, David F. Cutler, and Siwert Nilsson (1973), "Pottingeria, its taxonomic position, anatomy, and palynology", Kew Bulletin 28 (1): 97–104, doi:10.2307/4117067
- ↑ Li-Bing Zhang and Mark P. Simmons (2006), "Phylogeny and delimitation of the Celastrales inferred from nuclear and plastid genes", Systematic Botany 31 (1): 122–137, doi:10.1600/036364406775971778
- ↑ Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). Celastrales At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website.
- ↑ James L. Reveal. 2008 onward. "A Checklist of Family and Suprafamilial Names for Extant Vascular Plants." At: Home page of James L. Reveal and C. Rose Broome. (see External links below).
- ↑ "Celastraceae" pages 411-412. In: Armen L. Takhtajan (Takhtadzhian). Flowering Plants second edition (2009). ISBN 978-1-4020-9608-2.