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Dillenia
Sign in to saveDillenia is a genus of evergreen or semi-evergreen trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderDilleniales
- FamilyDilleniaceae
Native toAndaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Fiji, Hainan, India
Observations recorded15,718
General: Members of Dillenia are found throughout New Guinea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 759
- With media
- 581
- Family
- Dilleniaceae
- Collections
- MICH, NY, A, UOMNH
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, United States, Papua New Guinea, Brunei, Philippines
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Dillenia is a genus of evergreen or semi-evergreen trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.
The genus is named after the German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dillenia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.