Duabanga
| Duabanga | |
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| Duabanga grandiflora | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Lythraceae |
| Subfamily: | Duabangoideae (Takht.) S. A. Graham, Thorne & Reveal |
| Genus: | Duabanga Buch.-Ham. |
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Duabanga grandiflora (Roxb. ex DC.) Walpers | |
Duabanga is a small genus of lowland evergreen rainforest trees in southeast Asia, comprising two or three species.
Duabanga was traditionally included in the ditypic family Sonneratiaceae, but it is now classified in its own monotypic subfamily Duabangoideae of the Lythraceae.
References
- Graham, S. A., Thorne & Reveal (May 1998). "Validation of subfamily names in Lythraceae". Taxon (Taxon, Vol. 47, No. 2) 47 (2): 435–436. doi:10.2307/1223775. JSTOR 1223775.
- Little S. A., Stockey R. A., and Keating, R. C. (2004). "Duabanga-like leaves from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert and comparative leaf histology of Lythraceae sensu lato". American Journal of Botany 91 (7): 1126–1139. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.7.1126. PMID 21653468.
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