Balanops

Balanops
Balanops australiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Balanopaceae
Benth. & Hook.f.[1]
Genus: Balanops
Baill.
Synonyms[2]

Balanops is a group of flowering plants described as a genus in 1871.[3][4] The nine species are trees or shrubs, found in New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, and northern Queensland.[5]

The genus by itself constitutes the family Balanopaceae (formerly the spelling Balanopsidaceae was also used). The genus is relatively poorly known, and was sometimes assigned its own order (called Balanopales or Balanopsidales), as in the Engler system.

species[2]
  1. Balanops australiana - Queensland
  2. Balanops balansae - New Caledonia
  3. Balanops microstachya - New Caledonia
  4. Balanops oliviformis - New Caledonia
  5. Balanops pachyphylla - New Caledonia
  6. Balanops pancheri - New Caledonia
  7. Balanops pedicellata - Vanuatu, Fiji
  8. Balanops sparsifolia - New Caledonia
  9. Balanops vieillardii- New Caledonia

References

  1. ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, retrieved 2010-12-10
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1871. Adansonia 10: 117-119 in Latin
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Balanops Baill.
  5. ↑ Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. Magnolia Press. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.


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