Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Moronobeeae is a member of the Subfamily Clusioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Moronobeeae:
- 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
(Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
Auct.
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Theanae
Thorne Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order: Malpighiales
C. Martius, 1835
- Family: Guttiferae
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily: Clusioideae
- Tribe: Moronobeeae
- Subfamily: Clusioideae
- Family: Guttiferae
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Order: Malpighiales
C. Martius, 1835
- Superorder: Theanae
Thorne Ex Reveal, 1993
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
Auct.
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
(Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Moronobeeae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (5): Montrouziera · Moronobea · Pentadesma · Platonia · Symphonia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 65 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Moronobeeae.
Genera
Montrouziera
Montrouziera is a of plants in the family Clusiaceae, endemic to New Caledonia. As usual in the Clusiaceae, species of this genus are known to contain xanthones. [more]
Moronobea
Moronobea is a genus of the family Clusiaceae. They are glabrous medium to large trees with yellow latex. The genus comprises 7 species, native to South America, 5 of which are in Venezuela. [more]
Pentadesma
Platonia
Platonia insignis, the sole species of the genus Platonia, is a tree of the family Clusiaceae native to South America in the humid forests of Brazil, Paraguay, parts of Colombia and northeast to Guyana; specially in Amazon Rainforest. Common names include Bacuri (and numerous variant spellings thereof; Bacur?, Bacury, Bakuri, Pacuri, Pakuri, Pakouri, Packoeri, Pakoeri), Maniballi, Naranjillo and Bacurizeiro. [more]
Symphonia
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
At least 32 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Symphonia.
More info about the Genus Symphonia may be found here.
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