''Bhesa'' is a small genus of woody
plants
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in the family
Centroplacaceae. Its natural distribution is from southern
China
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to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
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It is a simplified version of ...
. It was formerly classified in
Celastraceae, until a
molecular phylogenetic
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study placed it in the family
Centroplacaceae in the order
Malpighiales
The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 36 families and more than species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsett ...
.
There are eight species:
* ''
Bhesa andamanica''
N.Balach. & Chakrab.
* ''
Bhesa archboldiana''
(Merr. & L.M.Perry) Ding Hou
* ''
Bhesa ceylanica''
(Arn. ex Thwaites) Ding Hou
* ''
Bhesa indica
''Bhesa indica'' is a flowering plant tree species in the Centroplacaceae family. It is distributed along the tropical wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats of India.Ding Hou, 1958A conspectus of the genus Bhesa (Celastraceae).''Blumea'' ...
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(Bedd.) Ding Hou
* ''
Bhesa nitidissima''
Kosterm.
* ''
Bhesa paniculata''
Arn.
* ''
Bhesa robusta''
(Roxb.) Ding Hou
* ''
Bhesa sinica''
(H.T.Chang & Liang) H.T.Chang & Liang
References
Malpighiales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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