''Carpodetus'' is a

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s in the Rousseaceae

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. It was formerly considered to lie within the

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. Its species occur in

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, and

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. The genus is characterised by small trees with

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leaves, bearing small white flowers with few stamens.

Species

Described species include: *'' Carpodetus amplus'' Reeder *'' Carpodetus arboreus'' (Lauterb. & K.Schum.) Schltr. *'' Carpodetus archboldianus'' Reeder *'' Carpodetus denticulatus'' (Ridl.) Reeder *''

Carpodetus flexuosus ''Carpodetus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Rousseaceae family (biology), family. It was formerly considered to lie within the Escalloniaceae. Its species occur in New Guinea, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. The genus is chara ...

'' (Ridl.) Reeder *'' Carpodetus fuscus'' Reeder *'' Carpodetus grandiflorus'' Schltr. *'' Carpodetus major'' Schltr. *'' Carpodetus montanus'' (Ridl.) Reeder *''

Carpodetus pullei ''Carpodetus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Rousseaceae family. It was formerly considered to lie within the Escalloniaceae. Its species occur in New Guinea, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. The genus is characterised by small ...

'' Schltr. *''

Carpodetus serratus ''Carpodetus serratus'' is an evergreen tree with small ovate or round, mottled leaves with a toothy margin, and young twigs grow zig-zag, and fragrant white flowers in 5 cm panicles and later black chewy berries. It is an endemic of New Zea ...

'' J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Taxonomy

''Carpodetus'' and its

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''C. serratus'' were first described by father and son Forster in 1773 and placed in the

Saxifragaceae Saxifragaceae is a family of herbaceous perennial flowering plants, within the core eudicot order Saxifragales. The taxonomy of the family has been greatly revised and the scope much reduced in the era of molecular phylogenetic analysis. The f ...

. In 1934 it was assigned to the newly created

by Hutchinson in his major revision of the dicotyledon families. In the

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, ''Carpodetus'' has been referred to the

Rousseaceae Rousseaceae is a plant family in the order Asterales containing trees and shrubs. The fruit is a berry or capsule. Leaves are simple, with toothed margins. Leaf stipules are not seen in this group. The family contains four genera and twelve or t ...

Phylogeny

''Carpodetus'' is the sister to the clade consisting of ''Abrophyllum'' and ''Cuttsia''. ''Roussea'' is sister to the rest of the family and is geographically most distanced from the other genera. Most related to this family are the Campanulaceae. This results in the following phylogenetic tree.

Etymology

''Carpodetus'' is derived from the

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words καρπός () (fruit) and (bound together), a reference that the seeds are bound together in clusters in the berry. ''cited on''

References

Rousseaceae Asterales genera {{Asterales-stub