Lepisanthes · Kew POWO · Kew Plants of the World Online
Lepisanthes
Sign in to saveLepisanthes is a genus of 31 species of trees or shrubs native to tropical Africa, south and southeast Asia, Australia, and Madagascar.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilySapindaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China South-Central, China Southeast
General: Lepisanthes is an understorey tree of primary and secondary
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 141
- With media
- 136
- Family
- Sapindaceae
- Collections
- A, MICH
- Recorded in
- Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, Papua New Guinea
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Sapindoideae
- Image
- Lepisanthes tetraphylla 09.JPG
Show 6 more facts
- taxon name
- Lepisanthes
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Lepisanthes
- topic's main category
- Category:Lepisanthes
- taxon common name
- 鳞花木属
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- External links
Lepisanthes is a genus of 31 species of trees or shrubs native to tropical Africa, south and southeast Asia, Australia, and Madagascar.
It includes species formerly classified in the genera Aphania, Erioglossum, and Otophora.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lepisanthes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.