Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Elaeocarpeae is a member of the Subfamily Cichorioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Elaeocarpeae:
- 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: Malvanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Oxalidales
Heintze, 1927
- Family: Elaeocarpaceae
(el-lee-oh-KAR-pus)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1808 ex A.L. de Jussieu, in A.P. de Candolle, 1816, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Cichorioideae
- Tribe: Elaeocarpeae
- Subfamily: Cichorioideae
- Family: Elaeocarpaceae
(el-lee-oh-KAR-pus)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1808 ex A.L. de Jussieu, in A.P. de Candolle, 1816, nom. cons.
- Order: Oxalidales
Heintze, 1927
- Superorder: Malvanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Elaeocarpeae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (6): Aceratium · Crinodendron · Dubouzetia · Elaeocarpus · Peripentadenia · Sericolea
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 978 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Elaeocarpeae.
Genera
Aceratium
Crinodendron
Crinodendron is a botanic with 8 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Elaeocarpaceae. [more]
Dubouzetia
Elaeocarpus
Elaeocarpus is a genus of tropical and subtropical evergreen trees and shrubs. The approximately 350 species are distributed from Madagascar in the west through India, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, southern China, and Japan, through Australia to New Zealand, Fiji, and Hawaii in the east. The islands of Borneo and New Guinea have the greatest concentration of species. These trees are well-known for their attractive, pearl-like fruit which are often colorful. [more]
Peripentadenia
Sericolea
At least 35 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Sericolea.
More info about the Genus Sericolea may be found here.
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