Longetia

Longetia
Longetia buxoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Caletieae
Subtribe: Dissiliariinae
Genus: Longetia
Baill.
Species:
L. buxoides
Binomial name
Longetia buxoides
Synonyms[1]
  • Austrobuxus buxoides (Baill.) Airy Shaw
  • Austrobuxus gracilis Airy Shaw
  • Austrobuxus pisocarpus Airy Shaw

Longetia is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae first described as a genus in 1866.[2][3] It has only one known species, Longetia buxoides, endemic to New Caledonia.[1][4]

formerly included[1]

moved to other genera: Austrobuxus Scagea

  1. L. carunculata - Austrobuxus carunculatus
  2. L. clusiacea - Austrobuxus clusiaceus
  3. L. depauperata - Scagea depauperata
  4. L. eugeniifolia - Austrobuxus eugeniifolius
  5. L. gynotricha - Scagea oligostemon
  6. L. malayana - Austrobuxus nitidus
  7. L. montana - Austrobuxus nitidus
  8. L. nitida - Austrobuxus nitidus
  9. L. swainii - Austrobuxus swainii
  1. ^ a b c "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
  2. ^ Baillon, Henri Ernest (1866). "Adansonia 6". Description du Genre Longetia (in French). pp. 352–359.
  3. ^ "Longetia Baill". Tropicos.
  4. ^ Govaerts, R.; Frodin, D. G.; Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. Kew: The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens.