Toronia

Toronia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
Order:	Proteales
Family:	Proteaceae
Genus:	Toronia L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs
Species:	T. toru
Binomial name
Toronia toru (A. Cunn.) L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs

Toronia is a genus of tree in the family Proteaceae that contains a single species, Toronia toru, which is found in New Zealand. The genus is closely related to the large genus Persoonia, and in fact this species was long regarded as one until placed in its own new genus by Lawrie Johnson and Barbara G. Briggs in their 1975 monograph "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family".^[1]

However, unpublished data indicates Toronia, Garnieria and Acidonia all lie within the large genus Persoonia.^[2]

References

1. L. A. S. Johnson and Briggs, B. G. (1975). "On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family". Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 70 (2): 83–182. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb01644.x.
2. Weston, Peter H.; Barker, Nigel P. (2006). "A new suprageneric classification of the Proteaceae, with an annotated checklist of genera" (PDF). Telopea 11 (3): 314–344.