''Sloanea'' is a

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s in the

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Elaeocarpaceae Elaeaocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family contains approximately 615 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genera."Elaeocarpaceae" In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol. VI. Springer-Verlag: Be ...

, comprising about 150 species. Species include: * '' Sloanea acutiflora'' Uittien * '' Sloanea assamica'' Rehder & E. Wilson * ''

Sloanea australis ''Sloanea australis'', commonly known as the maiden's blush, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. The range of natural distribution is from near Batemans Bay (35° S) in southern New South Wales to Cape Tribulation (16° S) in tropical Quee ...

'' Benth. &

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, an Australian rainforest tree * ''

Sloanea berteroana ''Sloanea berteroana'' is a tree of the Caribbean region. The name is often misspelled as ''Sloanea berteriana''.See, for example"Puerto Rico Statewide Assessment and Strategies for Forest Resources." Government of Puerto Rico. Department of Nat ...

'' Choisy ex DC. * '' Sloanea caribaea'' Krug & Urb. ex Duss * '' Sloanea gracilis'' Uittien * '' Sloanea lepida'' Tirel * '' Sloanea shankii'' Standl. & L.O.Williams * '' Sloanea suaveolens'' Tirel * '' Sloanea tomentosa'' Rehder & E. Wilson * ''

Sloanea woollsii ''Sloanea woollsii'', commonly known as yellow carabeen, is a large tree species with plank buttresses that is native to northeastern NSW and eastern Queensland, Australia. Its southern distributional limit is near the town of Bulahdelah (32� ...

, an Australian rainforest tree

Fossil record

†''Sloanea olmediaefolia'' has been described from many fossil leaves collected from lower Oligocene strata from 1857 to 1889 in Santa Giustina and

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in Central

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leaves of this species have also been collected from the continental ( fluvial and

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) beds of the Csatka Formation near Oroszlány (western

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, northeastern

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); these beds are from the 34 million years old Oligocene regional stage Kiscellian.Oligocene plant remains from Oroszlány, Hungary by Ildikó Selmeczi and Lilla Hably - Article in Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 256(3):353-361 · June 2010 - DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0058

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