''Trophis'' is a genus in the plant family
Moraceae
The Moraceae — often called the mulberry family or fig family — are a family of flowering plants comprising about 38 genera and over 1100 species. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates; however ...
which includes about nine species, six of which are
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
and three which are
Palaeotropical The Paleotropical Kingdom (Paleotropis) is a floristic kingdom comprising tropical areas of Africa, Asia and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand), as proposed by Ronald Good and Armen Takhtajan. Part of its flora, inherited from the ancient ...
. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants.
Recent work suggests that the genus is
polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage of organisms or other evolving elements that is of mixed evolutionary origin. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as homoplasies, which are explained as a result of conver ...
.
Selected species
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Trophis branderhorstii''
(Diels) Corner
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Trophis caucana
''Trophis'' is a genus in the plant family Moraceae which includes about nine species, six of which are Neotropical and three which are Palaeotropical. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants.
Recent work suggests ...
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(Pittier) C.C.Berg
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Trophis cuspidata''
Lundell
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Trophis drupacea''
(Diels) Corner
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Trophis involucrata''
W.C.Burger
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Trophis mexicana''
(Liebm.) Bureau
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Trophis noraminervae''
Cuevas & Carvajal
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Trophis philippinensis''
(Bureau) Corner
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Trophis racemosa
''Trophis racemosa'', commonly named white ramoon, is a species of plant of the fig family native to Latin America.
References
Moraceae
Plants described in 1753
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(L.) Urb.
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Trophis scandens
''Malaisia scandens'' (syn. ''Trophis scandens''), the burny vine or crow ash, is a species of large woody vines, constituting part of the fig plant family. They grow naturally in rainforests in Australia and Malesia.
In Australia, they grow n ...
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(Lour.) Hook. & Arn.
References
Moraceae
Moraceae genera
Dioecious plants
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