Gomortega nitida (syn. G. keule) is a species of flowering tree native to Chile. It is the sole species of genus Gomortega and family Gomortegaceae. It grows only in a very narrow habitat range in Coastal Central Chile. This species is endangered of extinction due to overharvesting, land use changes from native forests to agriculture and silviculture lands. It produces a yellow edible sweet fruit, harvested for making a kind of marmalade. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida- Dicots Liliopsida- Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Atherospermataceae Calycanthaceae Gomortegaceae Hernandiaceae Lauraceae Monimiaceae Siparunaceae The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Father Juan Ignacio Molina (June 24, 1740 - September 12, 1829) was a Chilean priest and naturalist. ... Louis Antoine Francois Baillon (January 20, 1778 - December 3, 1851) was a French naturalist and collector. ... In scientific classification, synonymy is the existence of multiple systematic names to label the same organism. ...

External links

• Pictures and habitat map of Gomortega keule. (Spanish)