Tetrapilus is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. It includes 21 species native to south and southeast Asia, ranging from India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Oleaceae |
| Tribe: | Oleeae |
| Subtribe: | Oleinae |
| Genus: | Tetrapilus Lour. (1790) |
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21; see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Genus Tetrapilus was first described by João de Loureiro in 1790.[1] It was later subsumed into genus Olea as subgenus. A phylogenomic analysis discovered that the species in subgenus Tetrapilus and Olea caudatilimba did not share a most recent common ancestor with the other Olea species (subgenera Olea and Paniculatae), making Olea polyphyletic. These species were transferred to the revived genus Tetrapilus.[2]
Species
edit21 species are accepted:[1]
- Tetrapilus borneensis (Boerl.) de Juana
- Tetrapilus brachiatus Lour.
- Tetrapilus caudatilimbus (L.C.Chia) de Juana
- Tetrapilus cordatulus (H.L.Li) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus dioicus (Roxb.) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus gagnepainii (Knobl.) de Juana
- Tetrapilus gamblei (C.B.Clarke) de Juana
- Tetrapilus hainanensis (H.L.Li) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus javanicus (Blume) de Juana
- Tetrapilus laxiflorus (H.L.Li) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus moluccensis (Kiew) de Juana
- Tetrapilus neriifolius (H.L.Li) de Juana
- Tetrapilus palawanensis (Kiew) de Juana
- Tetrapilus parvilimbus (Merr. & Chun) de Juana
- Tetrapilus polygamus (Wight) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus roseus (Craib) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus rubrovenius (Elmer) L.A.S.Johnson
- Tetrapilus salicifolius (Wall. ex G.Don) de Juana
- Tetrapilus tetragonocladus (L.C.Chia) de Juana
- Tetrapilus tsoongii (Merr.) de Juana
- Tetrapilus wightianus (Wall. ex G.Don) de Juana
References
edit- ^ a b c d Tetrapilus Lour. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ Dong, W.-P., Sun, J.-H., Liu, Y.-L., Xu, C., Wang, Y.-H., Suo, Z.-L., Zhou, S.-L., Zhang, Z.-X. and Wen, J. (2022), Phylogenomic relationships and species identification of the olive genus Olea (Oleaceae). J. Syst. Evol., 60: 1263-1280. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12802