Schoutenia

Schoutenia
Schoutenia ovata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Schoutenia
Korth.
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Actinophora Wall.
Chartacalyx Maing.ex Mast. [1]

Schoutenia is a genus of flowering plants. Traditionally included in the family Tiliaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. Pieter Willem Korthals described it in 1847/8 and named it after the explorer Willem Schouten.[2]

Selected species

Footnotes

  1. Hinsley (2007)
  2. Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z, Taylor & Francis US, 2000, p. 2422

References

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