Gastonia (plant)
''Gastonia'' is a formerly accepted genus of plants in the ivy and ginseng family, Araliaceae. It had been known as an unnatural Taxon, group, but was recognized as late as 2010, when its nine species were distributed to four different subgenera of the large genus ''Polyscias''.Porter P. Lowry II and Gregory M. Plunkett. 2010. "Recircumscription of ''Polyscias'' (Araliaceae) to include six related genera, with a new infrageneric classification and a synopsis of species". ''Plant Diversity and Evolution'' (formerly ''Botanische Jahrbucher'') 128(1-2):55-84. . (See ''External links'' below). Because the genus ''Gastonia'' is now obsolete, its species are herein referred to by their names in ''Polyscias''. The species that constituted ''Gastonia'' are mostly island endemics, with Madagascar and New Guinea being the largest land masses on which any of them naturally occur. ''Gastonia'' had a disjunct distribution, with three species from the Seychelles, three more from the Mascarene ...
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