''Mastixia'' is a genus of about 19 species of resinous evergreen trees, usually placed in the family
Cornaceae
The Cornaceae are a cosmopolitan family of flowering plants in the order Cornales. The family contains approximately 85 species in two genera, ''Alangium'' and ''Cornus''. They are mostly trees and shrubs, which may be deciduous or evergreen, alt ...
. Its range extends from India through Southeast Asia and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands.
''Mastixia'' species have alternate or opposite simple broad leaves, many-flowered
inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
s, and blue to purple
drupaceous
In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the ''pit'', ''stone'', or ''pyrena'') of hardened endocarp with a seed (''kernel'') ...
fruits.
The classification of ''Mastixia'' is inconsistent due to continuing investigation into its
phylogenetic
In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...
relationships. Although generally placed in Cornaceae, it has also been associated with the family
Nyssaceae
Nyssaceae is a family of flowering trees sometimes included in the dogwood family (Cornaceae). Nyssaceae is composed of 37 known species in the following five genera:Averyanov, L. V. & Hiep, N. T. (2002). ''Diplopanax vietnamensis'', a New Specie ...
, when that family is removed from Cornaceae.
''Mastixia'' is also sometimes separated, along with the genus ''
Diplopanax
''Diplopanax'' is a genus of flowering trees placed in the family Cornaceae or Nyssaceae. Its two known extant species inhabit the wet tropical mountains of Vietnam and southern China. They are broad-leaved evergreen trees with woody fruits and ...
'', into the family Mastixiaceae.
Fruits of this genus are common
Paleocene
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fossils.
Species
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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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'' and ''
The Plant List
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'' recognise about 30 accepted
taxa
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(of species and infraspecific names).
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Mastixia arborea
''Mastixia arborea'' is a species of plant in the Nyssaceae family. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
References
Mastixia, arborea
Least concern plants
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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subsp. ''macrophylla''
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subsp. ''meziana''
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Mastixia caudatilimba''
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Mastixia congylos''
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Mastixia cuspidata''
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Mastixia eugenioides''
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Mastixia euonymoides''
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Mastixia glauca''
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Mastixia kaniensis''
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subsp. ''ledermannii''
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Mastixia macrocarpa''
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Mastixia macrophylla''
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Mastixia microcarpa''
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Mastixia montana
''Mastixia'' is a genus of about 19 species of resinous evergreen trees, usually placed in the family Cornaceae. Its range extends from India through Southeast Asia and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. ''Mastixia'' species have alternate or opp ...
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Mastixia nimalii'' (''M. nimali'' in IUCN
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Mastixia octandra
''Mastixia'' is a genus of about 19 species of resinous evergreen trees, usually placed in the family Cornaceae. Its range extends from India through Southeast Asia and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. ''Mastixia'' species have alternate or opp ...
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Mastixia parviflora
''Mastixia'' is a genus of about 19 species of resinous evergreen trees, usually placed in the family Cornaceae. Its range extends from India through Southeast Asia and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. ''Mastixia'' species have alternate or opp ...
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Mastixia pentandra
''Mastixia'' is a genus of about 19 species of resinous evergreen trees, usually placed in the family Cornaceae. Its range extends from India through Southeast Asia and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands. ''Mastixia'' species have alternate or opp ...
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subsp. ''cambodiana''
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subsp. ''chinensis''
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subsp. ''philippinensis''
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subsp. ''scortechinii''
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Mastixia rostrata''
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subsp. ''caudatifolia''
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Mastixia tetrandra
''Mastixia tetrandra'' is a species of plant in the Nyssaceae family. It is Endemism, endemic to Sri Lanka where it is known as දියතලිය (diyathaliya) by local people.
References
Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
Mastixia, tetrand ...
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Mastixia tetrapetala''
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Mastixia trichophylla''
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Mastixia trichotoma''
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var. ''clarkeana''
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var. ''korthalsiana''
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var. ''maingayi''
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var. ''rhynchocarpa''
References
Cornales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Blume
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