Maasia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Magnoliids |
Order: | Magnoliales |
Family: | Annonaceae |
Subfamily: | Malmeoideae |
Genus: | Maasia Mols, Kessler & Rogstad |
Maasia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Annonaceae.[1]
Its native range is Indo-China to New Guinea. It is found in Andaman Islands, Borneo, Java, Malaya, Maluku Islands, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera and Thailand.[1]
The genus name of Maasia is in honour of Paul Maas (born 1939), a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the neotropics.[2] It was first described and published in Syst. Bot. Vol. 33 on page 493 in 2008.[1] The name Mosannona Chatrou (1998), Annonaceae, was also named after him.