Zuelania guidonia is a species of shrub or tree native to the West Indies, Central America, and northern South America and is the only member of the genusZuelania.[1] Formerly classified in the Flacourtiaceae, phylogenetic analyses based on DNA data indicate that this species, along with its close relatives in Casearia, Samyda, Hecatostemon, and Laetia, are better placed in a broadly circumscribed Salicaceae.[2]Zuelania differs from its close relatives in having a large, subsessile stigma.
References
^Sleumer, Hermann (1980). "Flacourtiaceae". Flora Neotropica. 22: 1-499.
^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. doi:10.2307/4110825. JSTOR4110825.
