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Ctenolophon

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Ctenolophon

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Ctenolophon is the only genus in the flowering plant family Ctenolophonaceae. It has two recognized species:

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderMalpighiales
  5. FamilyCtenolophonaceae
Native toAngola, Borneo, Cameroon, DR Congo, Gabon, Malaya, New Guinea, Nigeria, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand
Observations recorded701

General: Ctenolophon can be large trees, with interpetiolar stipules

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
43
With media
22
Family
Ctenolophonaceae
Collections
MICH, RSA
Recorded in
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia/Sabah

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Ctenolophon is the only genus in the flowering plant family Ctenolophonaceae. It has two recognized species: Ctenolophon englerianus Mildbr. – central Africa (Nigeria, Gabon, Zaire, Angola) Ctenolophon parvifolius Oliv. – New Guinea and southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines)

This family is well-represented in fossil pollen from the Late Cretaceous onwards. Based on fossils, it was formerly also found in northern South America, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Indian Subcontinent.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ctenolophon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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