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Meliosma

Meliosma
Temporal range: [1]
Meliosma veitchiorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Sabiaceae
Genus: Meliosma
Blume
Species

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Synonyms

Millingtonia Roxb.
Wellingtonia Meisn.

Meliosma henryi
Meliosma pinnata var. oldhamii seeds

Meliosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. It is traditionally considered to contain about 100 species; some botanists[2] take a much more conservative view accepting only 20-25 species as distinct. They are trees or shrubs, growing to 10–45 m tall.

Fossil evidence shows the genus formerly had a much wider range in the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and central Asia until the late Pliocene ice ages, and somewhat earlier in North America.[3] At least 17 species of Meliosma are known from Peru.[4]

The Indian awlking (Choaspes benjaminii) is one of the Lepidoptera whose caterpillars feed on Meliosma; they have been found on M. pungens, rhoifolia, M. rigida, and M. squamulata.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Wing was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ E.g. van Beusekom (1971)
  3. ^ van Beusekom (1971)
  4. ^ Gentry, A., 1992. Four New Species of Meliosma (Sabiaceae) from Peru. Novon, 2(2), p.155.

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