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Duabanga
Duabanga grandiflora
Duabanga grandiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae
Subfamily: Duabangoideae
(Takht.) S. A. Graham, Thorne & Reveal
Genus: Duabanga
Buch.-Ham.
Species

Duabanga grandiflora (Roxb. ex DC.) Walpers
Duabanga moluccana Blume
Duabanga taylorii Jayaweera Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ... Families See text. ... Genera 32 (28); see text. ... Armen Takhtajan (born 1910), aka Armen Leonovich Takhtadjan or Takhtadzhian, is a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th Century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. ... Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (February 15, 1762 - June 15, 1829) was a Scottish physician, zoologist and botanist living in India. ... Engraving by Charles Turner Warren William Roxburgh (June 29, 1759 – April 10, 1815) was a Scottish physician and botanist. ... Augustin Pyrame de Candolle A.P. de Candolle (February 4, 1778 - September 9, 1841) was one of the great botanists of all time. ... Carl Ludwig Blume (29 June 1789 - 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist. ...

Duabanga is a small genus of lowland evergreen rainforest trees in southeast Asia, comprising two or three species. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ...


Duabanga was traditionally included in the ditypic family Sonneratiaceae, but it is now classified in its own monotypic subfamily Duabangoideae of the Lythraceae. Sonneratiaceae was a family of flowering plants placed in the order Myrtales by the Cronquist system. ... Monotypic refers to a taxonomic group with only one subgroup at the next (smaller) taxonomic level, for example, a monotypic genus has only one species. ... Genera 32 (28); see text. ...


References

  • Graham, S. A., Thorne & Reveal (May 1998). Validation of subfamily names in Lythraceae. Taxon 47 (2): 435-436.
  • Little S. A., Stockey R. A., and Keating, R. C. (2004). Duabanga-like leaves from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert and comparative leaf histology of Lythraceae sensu lato. American Journal of Botany 91: 1126-1139.


 
 

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