Antidesmeae (Tribe)

Overview

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Antidesmeae is a of the family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises 5 subtribes and 19 genera.

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Taxonomy

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The Tribe Antidesmeae is a member of the Subfamily Faboideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Antidesmeae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866
  - 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: Dilleniidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Euphorbianae Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
        Order: Euphorbiales Lindley, 1833
        Family: Euphorbiaceae (yoo-for-bee-AY-see-ay) J.f. Gmelin, 1777, Nom. Cons. - Spurge Family
        Subfamily: Faboideae
        Tribe: Antidesmeae

The Tribe Antidesmeae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Subtribe (1): Antidesminae
Genus (2): Antidesma · Uapaca
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 274 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Antidesmeae.

Genera

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Antidesma

Antidesma is a plant genus of about 170 species from the family Phyllanthaceae. It consists of shrubs or trees, up to 30 m, growing in evergreen forests. They occur in the Old World Tropics and mainly in Southeast Asia, but also in tropical Australia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. There are 18 species and five varieties of Antidesma endemic to Thailand. [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 100 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Uapaca.

More info about the Genus Uapaca may be found here.

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