Podocalycinae
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''Podocalyx'' is a plant genus under the family
Picrodendraceae Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 species in 24 genera.Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/ These are subtropical to tropical ...
described in 1841.Tropicos, ''Podocalyx'' Klotzsch
/ref> It is the sole genus in the
subtribe Subtribe is a taxonomic category ranking which is below the rank of tribe and above genus. The standard suffix for a subtribe is -ina (in animals) or -inae (in plants Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plant ...
Podocalycinae. There is only one known species, ''Podocalyx loranthoides'', a tree native to Venezuela,
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
, Peru, and northwestern Brazil.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae As the family Picrodendraceae is erected from the bases of subfamily Oldfieldioideae, its taxonomy remains the same: Tribe Caletieae There are 4 subtribes and 13 genera: :Subtribe Dissiliariinae ::''Austrobuxus'' (also ''Buraeavia'', ''Bureaua ...


References

Picrodendraceae Flora of South America Monotypic Malpighiales genera Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch {{Malpighiales-stub