Meliosma
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 Meliosma veitchiorum
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Meliosma (syn. Millingtonia Roxb., Wellingtonia Meisn.) is a genus of about 100 species of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. Some botanists (e.g. van Beusekom 1971) take a much more conservative veiw of the species, accepting only 20-25 as distinct species.
The species are trees or shrubs, growing to 10-45 m tall.
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Fossil evidence shows the genus formerly had a much wider range in the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and central Asia until the late Pliocene ice ages, and somewhat earlier in North America (van Beusekom 1971).
[edit] References
- Flora of Pakistan: Meliosma
- Flora of China: Meliosma species list
- Flora of Ecuador: Meliosma
- IAC Herbarium (Brazil): Meliosma species list
- Germplasm Resources Information Network: Meliosma
- van Beusekom, C. F. (1971). Revision of Meliosma. Blumea 19: 355-529.
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