''Maasia'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s belonging to the family
Annonaceae
The Annonaceae are a Family (biology), family of flowering plants consisting of trees, shrubs, or rarely lianas commonly known as the custard apple family or soursop family. With 108 accepted genera and about 2400 known species, it is the largest ...
.
Its native range is
Indo-China
Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...
to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu
Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea).
It is a simplified version of ...
. It is found in Andaman Islands, Borneo, Java, Malaya, Maluku Islands, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera and Thailand.
The genus name of ''Maasia'' is in honour of
Paul Maas (born 1939), a botanist from the Netherlands and a specialist in the flora of the
neotropics
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical Ecoregion#Terrestrial, terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperat ...
.
It was first described and published in ''
Syst. Bot.'' Vol. 33 on page 493 in 2008.
Species
According to Kew:
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Maasia discolor''
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Maasia glauca''
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Maasia hypoleuca''
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Maasia multinervis''
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Maasia ovalifolia''
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Maasia sumatrana''
References
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Annonaceae
Annonaceae genera
Plants described in 2008
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia
Flora of New Guinea