Osmelia

Osmelia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Subfamily: Samydoideae
Genus: Osmelia
Type species
Osmelia gardneri
Thwaites
Species

Four (4). See text.

Synonyms

Osmelia is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae.[1] Osmelia includes four species of trees native to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.[2][3] Osmelia is closely related to the monotypic Pseudosmelia of Morotai and Halmahera of the Indonesian Maluku Islands and to the monotypic Ophiobotrys from west and west-central tropical Africa.

List of species

  • Osmelia gardneri Thwaites
  • Osmelia grandistipulata D. F. van Slooten
  • Osmelia maingayi King
  • Osmelia philippina (Turcz.) Benth.


References

  1. ↑ Chase, Mark W.; Sue Zmarzty; M. Dolores Lledó; Kenneth J. Wurdack; Susan M. Swensen; Michael F. Fay (2002). "When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences". Kew Bulletin. 57 (1): 141–181. doi:10.2307/4110825. JSTOR 4110825.
  2. ↑ Sleumer, Hermann (1954). "Flacourtiaceae". Flora Malesiana, ser. 1. 5: 1-106.
  3. ↑ Verdcourt, B. (1996). "Flacourtiaceae". Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon. 10: 199-235.


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