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Bombacoideae

(Subfamily)

Overview

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Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Bombacoideae is a member of the Family Malvaceae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Bombacoideae:

The Subfamily Bombacoideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Adansonia

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Aguiaria

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Bernoullia

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Bombacopsis

A Genus in the Kingdom Plantae. [more]

Bombax

Bombax is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, as well as sub-tropical regions of East Asia and northern Australia. Common names for the genus include Silk Cotton Tree, Simal, Red Cotton Tree, Kapok and simply Bombax. In Chinese they are known as Mumian (Chinese: ; pinyin: m?mi?n), meaning "tree cotton". Currently three species are recognised, though many plants have been placed in the genus that were later moved. [more]

Catostemma

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Cavanillesia

Cavanillesia is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family. It contains the following species (list may not be complete): [more]

Ceiba

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America, South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. Some species can grow to 70 m (230 ft) tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra. [more]

Chiranthodendron

Chiranthodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, comprising a single species of tree, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, is called the Devil's hand tree, monkey's hand tree, or Mexican hand tree, or some variant thereof - for the distinct shape of its flowers, which resemble an open human hand. [more]

Chorisia

Ceiba is the name of a genus of many species of large trees found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central America, South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. Some species can grow to 70 m (230 ft) tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra. [more]

Eriolaena

Eriolaena is a genus of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Eriotheca

Eriotheca is a of flowering plant in the mallow family (Malvaceae). [more]

Fremontodendron

The flannelbush or flannel bush (Fremontodendron, syn. Fremontia) is a of two species of shrubs from the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. They are treated within the Sterculiaceae by the most of the authors, in the tribe Fremontodendreae together with the genus Chiranthodendron, but also included in the family Malvaceae (fide APG). [more]

Gyranthera

Gyranthera is a genus of tropical trees of South America and Central America, belonging to family . [more]

Huberodendron

Huberodendron is a genus of in the Bombacaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Matisia

Matisia is a genus of in the Malvaceae sensu lato or Bombacaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Neobuchia

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Ochroma

Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree (also O. lagopus), is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to 30 m (100 ft) tall. Balsa wood is a very lightweight material with many uses. Balsa trees are native from southern Brazil and Bolivia north to southern Mexico. [more]

Pachira

Pachira (syn. Carolinea) is a genus of tropical trees distributed in Central and South America, Africa and India. They are classified in the subfamily Bombacoideae of the family Malvaceae. Previously the genus was assigned to Bombacaceae. Prior to that the genus was found in the (now obsolete) Sterculiaceae. Some 77 species have been identified. They form small or large trees with digitate leaves, and the fruit an oval woody one-celled capsule opening by a number of divisions and containing many seeds. [more]

Patinoa

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Pentaplaris

Pentaplaris is a genus of in the Tiliaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Phragmotheca

Phragmotheca is a genus of in the Bombacaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Pseudobombax

Pseudobombax is a genus of in the Malvaceae family. Subfamily: Bombacoideae [more]

Quararibea

Quararibea is a genus of aromatic plants in the family Malvaceae. Quararibea "ishpingo" (species unknown) is added to some versions of the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca. Quararibea turbinata goes by the common name "Swizzlestick tree." [more]

Rhodognaphalon

Rhodognaphalon is a genus of in the Bombacaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Rhodognaphalopsis

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Scleronema

Scleronema is a of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Trichomycteridae. It includes three species, S. angustirostre, S. minutum, and S. operculatum. S. angustirostre originates from Uruguay and grows to about 4.8 centimetres (1.9 in) SL. S. minutum and S. operculatum both originate from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; S. minutum 4.0 cm (1.6 in) SL and S. operculatum 8.0 cm (3.1 in). Scleronema is not included under any of the trichomycterid subfamilies. [more]

Septotheca

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Spirotheca

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At least 14 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Spirotheca.

More info about the Genus Spirotheca may be found here.

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 20:04:37