Heliciopsis
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Proteales |
Family: | Proteaceae |
Subfamily: | Grevilleoideae |
Tribe: | Macadamieae |
Subtribe: | Virotiinae |
Genus: | Heliciopsis Sleumer[1] |
Heliciopsis is a genus of about fourteen species of trees, constituting part of the flowering plant family Proteaceae.[1] They grow naturally in Myanmar, Indo-China, China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java (Indonesia) and the Philippines.[2] The name means similar to the plant genus Helicia.[2] Its closest relatives are Athertonia (Australia) and Virotia (New Caledonia).[3]
Species
[edit]It includes the following species:[1][2][4][5][6]
- Heliciopsis artocarpoides (Elmer) Sleumer
- Heliciopsis cockburnii Kochummen
- Heliciopsis henryi (Diels) W.T.Wang
- Heliciopsis incisa (Koord. & Valeton) Sleumer
- Heliciopsis lanceolata (Koord. & Valeton) Sleumer
- Heliciopsis litseifolia R.C.K.Chung
- Heliciopsis lobata (Merr.) Sleumer
- Heliciopsis mahmudii (P.Chai) R.C.K.Chung
- Heliciopsis montana Sym. ex Kochummen
- Heliciopsis percoriacea R.C.K.Chung
- Heliciopsis rufidula Sleumer
- Heliciopsis terminalis (Kurz) Sleumer
- Heliciopsis velutina (Prain) Sleumer
- Heliciopsis whitmorei Kochummen
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Heliciopsis". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ a b c Chung, Richard C. K. (April 2002). "Heliciopsis Sleumer". In Soepadmo, E.; Saw, L. G.; Chung, R. C. K. (eds.). Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak. (free online from the publisher, lesser resolution scan PDF versions). Vol. 4. Forest Research Institute Malaysia. pp. 189–201. ISBN 983-2181-27-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 25 Sep 2013.
- ^ Mast, A.; et al. (2008). "A smaller Macadamia from a more vagile tribe: inference of phylogenetic relationships, divergence times, and diaspore evolution in Macadamia and relatives (tribe Macadamieae; Proteaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 95 (7): 843–870. doi:10.3732/ajb.0700006. PMID 21632410.
- ^ Chung, Richard C. K. (2001). "Taxonomic notes on the Bornean Helicia and Heliciopsis (Proteaceae)" (PDF). Journal of Tropical Forest Science. 13 (3): 534–547. Retrieved 24 Apr 2013.
- ^ Chung, Richard C. K. (1998). "New species of Helicia Lour. and Heliciopsis Sleumer (Proteaceae) from Borneo" (digitised, online, via biodiversitylibrary.org). The Gardens' Bulletin Singapore. 50: 151–160. Retrieved 29 Jan 2014.
- ^ Chai, P. P. K. (1996). "Helicia mahmudii (Proteaceae), a new species of tree from Sarawak". Sandakania. 7: 59–61.