Pichonia

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Short description: Genus of trees

Pichonia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Subfamily: Chrysophylloideae
Genus: Pichonia
Pierre
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhamnoluma Baill.
  • Epiluma Baill.
  • Arnanthus Baehni
  • Wokoia Baehni

Pichonia is a group of trees in the Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1890.[2][3]

Pichonia is native to New Caledonia, New Guinea and nearby Islands in Indonesia and Papuasia.[1][4][5]

Species[1]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pierre, Jean Baptiste Louis 1890. Notes Botaniques: Sapotacées 22.
  3. Tropicos, Pichonia Pierre
  4. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. Swenson, U., Bartish, I.V. & Munzinger, J. (2007). Phylogeny, diagnostic characters and generic limitation of Australasian Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae, Ericales): evidence from ITS sequence data and morphology. Cladistics 23: 201-228.

Wikidata ☰ Q9059384 entry





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