Antidesmateae (Tribe)

Overview

Taxonomy

The Tribe Antidesmateae is a member of the Subfamily Antidesmatoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Antidesmateae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Rosidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Euphorbianae Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
        Order: Malpighiales C. Martius, 1835
        Family: Euphorbiaceae (yoo-for-bee-AY-see-ee) A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
        Subfamily: Antidesmatoideae
        Tribe: Antidesmateae

The Tribe Antidesmateae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (7): Antidesma · Aporosa · Aporusa · Baccaurea · Hyeronima · Spondianthus · Uapaca
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 871 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Antidesmateae.

Genera

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Antidesma

Antidesma is a genus of tropical plant in the Phyllanthaceae. This is a variable plant which may be short and shrubby or tall and erect, approaching 30 meters in height.It has large oval shaped leathery evergreen leaves up to about 20 centimeters long and seven wide. The flowers have a strong, somewhat unpleasant scent. The staminate flowers are arranged in small bunches and the pistillate flowers grow on long racemes which will become the long strands of fruit. The fruits are spherical and just under a centimeter wide, hanging singly or paired in long, heavy bunches. They are white when immature and gradually turn red, then black.When they are still white they have sour and astringent taste, sour taste when they are red and have sweet and sour taste when they are black. Antidesma is native to the Old World Tropics. They have about 100 species and the highest number in South-East Asia. There are 18 species of Antidesma in Thailand. [more]

Aporosa

Aporosa is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus comprises about 75 species, distributed from Indomalaya to the Solomon Islands. [more]

Aporusa

Aporosa is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus comprises about 75 species, distributed from Indomalaya to the Solomon Islands. [more]

Baccaurea

Baccaurea is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae. The genus comprises over 100 species, distributed from Indomalesia to the West Pacific. [more]

Hyeronima

Hieronyma is a belonging to the plant family Phyllanthaceae. This family was formerly united with spurges, crotons, copperleaves, etc (Euphorbiaceae), but have turned out to be well distinct. [more]

Spondianthus

Spondianthus is a of plant, in the family Phyllanthaceae and is the only genus comprised in the subtribe Spondianthinae. The genus is found in tropical Africa. [more]

Uapaca

Uapaca is a of plant, in the family Phyllanthaceae and is the only genus comprised in the subtribe Uapacinae. It comprises about 60 species, of which 49 are confined to continental Africa. [more]

At least 98 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Uapaca.

More info about the Genus Uapaca may be found here.

Sources

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