''Stemonoporus'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
s in the family
Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpaceae is a family (biology), family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India ...
. The genus is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
to
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
.
[ It contains as many as 26 species, all but one confined to the perhumid forests of the island.
]
Species
26 species are accepted:[This list has been compiled from th]
Dipterocarpaceae Data Base
− held and maintained at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
* '' Stemonoporus acuminatus'' – (Thwaites) P.S.Ashton
* '' Stemonoporus affinis'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus angustisepalus'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus bullatus'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus canaliculatus'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus ceylanicus'' – (Wight) Alston
* '' Stemonoporus cordifolius'' – (Thwaites) P.S.Ashton
* '' Stemonoporus elegans'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus gardneri'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus gilimalensis'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus gracilis'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus kanneliyensis'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus laevifolius'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus lanceolatus'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus lancifolius'' – (Thwaites) P.S.Ashton
* '' Stemonoporus latisepalus'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus marginalis'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus moonii'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus nitidus'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus oblongifolius'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus petiolaris'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus reticulatus'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus revolutus'' – Trimen ex Hook.f.
* '' Stemonoporus rigidus'' – Thwaites
* '' Stemonoporus scalarinervis'' – Kosterm.
* '' Stemonoporus scaphifolius'' – Kosterm.
References
Dipterocarpaceae genera
Endemic flora of Sri Lanka
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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