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Filicium

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Filicium is a genus of flowering plants in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native to east Africa, Madagascar, India and Sri Lanka. The best known species is Filicium decipiens, which is planted as an ornamental tree.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderSapindales
  5. FamilySapindaceae
Native toComoros, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
39
With media
22
Family
Sapindaceae
Collections
MO, JBRJ, CAS, BPBM, MNHN, UFMG
Recorded in
Madagascar, Brasil, United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Indonesia

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Encyclopedic overview

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Filicium is a genus of flowering plants in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native to east Africa, Madagascar, India and Sri Lanka. The best known species is Filicium decipiens, which is planted as an ornamental tree.

==Species== Three species are currently accepted. Filicium decipiens (Wight & Arn.) Thwaites Filicium longifolium (H.Perrier) Capuron Filicium thouarsianum (DC.) Capuron

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

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