Nesogordonia is a genus of flowering plants. It ranges across tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands. The majority of species are endemic to Madagascar.[2]

Nesogordonia
Nesogordonia tricarpellata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Nesogordonia
Baill.
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Cistanthera K.Schum.[1]

Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. In that clade, it belongs to the subfamily Dombeyoideae. Nesogordonia is among the oldest living genera of its subfamily, if not the most ancestral one.[3]

There are 22 accepted species:[2]

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ Hinsley (2007)
  2. ^ a b "Nesogordonia Baill.". Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 22 August 2021 [1]
  3. ^ Cao et al. (2006)

References edit

  • Cao, Nathanaël; Le Pechon, Timothée & Zaragüeta-Bagils, René (2006): Does minimizing homoplasy really maximize homology? MaHo: A method for evaluating homology among most parsimonious trees. C. R. Palevol 7(1): 17–26. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2007.12.008 (HTML abstract)
  • Hinsley, Stewart R. (2007): Synonymy of Malvaceae. Retrieved 2008-JUN-25.