Tetrapilus

''Tetrapilus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the olive family, Oleaceae. It includes 21 species native to south and southeast Asia, ranging from India through Indochina and southern China to Malesia.

Genus ''Tetrapilus'' was first described by João de Loureiro in 1790. It was later subsumed into genus ''Olea'' as subgenus. A phylogenomic analysis discovered that the species in subgenus ''Tetrapilus'' and ''Olea caudatilimba'' did not share a most recent common ancestor with the other ''Olea'' species (subgenera ''Olea'' and ''Paniculatae''), making ''Olea'' polyphyletic. These species were transferred to the revived genus ''Tetrapilus''.Dong, W.-P., Sun, J.-H., Liu, Y.-L., Xu, C., Wang, Y.-H., Suo, Z.-L., Zhou, S.-L., Zhang, Z.-X. and Wen, J. (2022), Phylogenomic relationships and species identification of the olive genus Olea (Oleaceae). J. Syst. Evol., 60: 1263-1280. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12802

Species

21 species are accepted:
*'' Tetrapilus borneensis''
*'' Tetrapilus brachiatus''
*'' Tetrapilus caudatilimbus''
*'' Tetrapilus cordatulus''
*'' Tetrapilus dioicus''
*'' Tetrapilus gagnepainii''
*'' Tetrapilus gamblei''
*'' Tetrapilus hainanensis''
*'' Tetrapilus javanicus''
*'' Tetrapilus laxiflorus''
*'' Tetrapilus moluccensis''
*'' Tetrapilus neriifolius''
*'' Tetrapilus palawanensis''
*'' Tetrapilus parvilimbus''
*'' Tetrapilus polygamus''
*'' Tetrapilus roseus''
*'' Tetrapilus rubrovenius''
*'' Tetrapilus salicifolius''
*'' Tetrapilus tetragonocladus''
*'' Tetrapilus tsoongii''
*'' Tetrapilus wightianus''

References

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Oleaceae genera
Oleeae