Wightia

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Paulowniaceae
Genus:  | Wightia
Wall.
Species:  |

W. speciosissima

Binomial name
Wightia speciosissima

(D.Don) Merr.

Synonyms

* Gmelina speciosissima D.Don
* Wightia alpinii Craib
* Wightia elliptica Merr.
* Wightia gigantea Wall.
* Wightia lacei Craib

Wightia is a genus of flowering plants tentatively sister to the Phrymaceae which currently contains only two species. It grows as a tree, or a hemiepiphytic pseudo-vine, up to 15 metres (49 ft) tall.[1] It is found in South Asia and South East Asia, from Nepal and India to Thailand, Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province, at altitudes below 2,500 m (8,200 ft).[1] There are still morphological characters as well as nuclear genome data to support Wightia as sister to Paulownia leading it to be of proposed hybrid origin from Phrymaceae and Paulowniaceae[2]. Due to chloroplast and mitochondrial data showing Wightia as sister to Phrymaceae it is proposed that a new family Wightiaceae be recognized[3].

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hong et al. (1998), pp. 10–11.
2. ↑ Xia, Zhi; Wen, Jun; Gao, Zhiming (2019-04-30). "Does the Enigmatic Wightia Belong to Paulowniaceae (Lamiales)?". Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 528. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00528. ISSN 1664-462X. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2019.00528/full.
3. ↑ Liu, Bing; Tan, Yun‐Hong; Liu, Su; Olmstead, Richard G.; Min, Dao‐Zhang; Chen, Zhi‐Duan; Joshee, Nirmal; Vaidya, Brajesh N. et al. (2019-09-03). "Phylogenetic relationships of Cyrtandromoea and Wightia revisited: A new tribe in Phrymaceae and a new family in Lamiales". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. doi:10.1111/jse.12513. ISSN 1674-4918.

### Bibliography

* Deyuan Hong; Hanbi Yang; Cun-li Jin; Manfred A. Fischer; Noel H. Holmgren; Robert R. Mill (1998). "Scrophulariaceae A. L. Jussieu". Scrophulariaceae through Gesneriaceae. Flora of China. 18. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. pp. 1–212. ISBN 9780915279555.

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