Osmelia

Osmelia
Osmelia grandistipulata in Singapore
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Subfamily: Samydoideae
Genus: Osmelia
Thwaites
Type species
Osmelia gardneri
Thwaites
Species

Four (4). See text.

Synonyms

Osmelia is a genus of flowering plants in the willow family, Salicaceae.[1] Osmelia includes four species of trees native to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.[2][3] Osmelia is closely related to the monotypic Pseudosmelia of Morotai and Halmahera of the Indonesian Maluku Islands and to the monotypic Ophiobotrys from west and west-central tropical Africa.

List of species

References

  1. ^ Chase, Mark W.; Sue Zmarzty; M. Dolores Lledó; Kenneth J. Wurdack; Susan M. Swensen; Michael F. Fay (2002). "When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences". Kew Bulletin. 57 (1): 141–181. Bibcode:2002KewBu..57..141C. doi:10.2307/4110825. JSTOR 4110825.
  2. ^ Sleumer, Hermann (1954). "Flacourtiaceae". Flora Malesiana. Series 1. 5: 1–106.
  3. ^ Verdcourt, B. (1996). "Flacourtiaceae". Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon. 10: 199–235.


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