Phelline

Phellinaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Phellinaceae
Takht.[1]
Genus: Phelline
Labill.
Species

Phelline billardieri
Phelline comosa
Phelline confertifolia
Phelline lucida
Phelline wagapensis
etc.

Phelline is a genus of the shrubs and the sole member of the family Phellinaceae, one of the three families of flowering plants that are endemic to New Caledonia. It is placed in the order Asterales and is related to two other small plant families: Alseuosmiaceae and Argophyllaceae.[2] It contains c. 14 species.[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, J., J. Lundberg, B. Bremer, and K. Bremer (1999). Evolution of the Autralasian Families Alseuosmiaceae, Argophyllaceae, and Phellinaceae. Systematic Botany 24: 660–82.
  3. Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2012n2a1
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