Longetia is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae first described as a genus in 1866.[2][3] It has only one known species, Longetia buxoides, endemic to New Caledonia.[1][4]
| Longetia | |
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| Longetia buxoides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Picrodendraceae |
| Tribe: | Caletieae |
| Subtribe: | Dissiliariinae |
| Genus: | Longetia Baill. |
| Species: | L. buxoides
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| Binomial name | |
| Longetia buxoides | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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- formerly included[1]
moved to other genera: Austrobuxus Scagea
- L. carunculata - Austrobuxus carunculatus
- L. clusiacea - Austrobuxus clusiaceus
- L. depauperata - Scagea depauperata
- L. eugeniifolia - Austrobuxus eugeniifolius
- L. gynotricha - Scagea oligostemon
- L. malayana - Austrobuxus nitidus
- L. montana - Austrobuxus nitidus
- L. nitida - Austrobuxus nitidus
- L. swainii - Austrobuxus swainii
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
- ^ Baillon, Henri Ernest (1866). "Adansonia 6". Description du Genre Longetia (in French). pp. 352–359.
- ^ "Longetia Baill". Tropicos.
- ^ Govaerts, R.; Frodin, D. G.; Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. Kew: The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
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