Duabanga is a small genus of lowland evergreen rainforest trees in southeast Asia, comprising two or three species.
Duabanga | |
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Duabanga grandiflora | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Lythraceae |
Subfamily: | Duabangoideae (Takht.) S. A. Graham, Thorne & Reveal |
Genus: | Duabanga Buch.-Ham. |
Species | |
Duabanga grandiflora (Roxb. ex DC.) Walpers |
Duabanga was traditionally included in the ditypic family Sonneratiaceae, but it is now classified in its own monotypic subfamily Duabangoideae of the Lythraceae.
References
edit- Graham, S. A.; Thorne & Reveal (May 1998). "Validation of subfamily names in Lythraceae". Taxon. 47 (2). Taxon, Vol. 47, No. 2: 435–436. doi:10.2307/1223775. JSTOR 1223775.
- Little S. A.; Stockey R. A.; Keating R. C. (2004). "Duabanga-like leaves from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert and comparative leaf histology of Lythraceae sensu lato". American Journal of Botany. 91 (7): 1126–1139. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.7.1126. PMID 21653468.