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Tetrameles
Sign in to saveTetrameles is a genus of flowering plants in the family Tetramelaceae with one species, Tetrameles nudiflora. It grows as a large deciduous tree and is found across southern Asia from India through southeast Asia, Malesia, and into northern Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCucurbitales
- FamilyTetramelaceae
General: A monospecific genus, Tetrameles nudiflora R.Br
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Tetramelaceae
- Collections
- MEL, US, UPS
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, India
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Tetramelaceae
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Tetrameles is a genus of flowering plants in the family Tetramelaceae with one species, Tetrameles nudiflora. It grows as a large deciduous tree and is found across southern Asia from India through southeast Asia, Malesia, and into northern Australia.
==Taxonomy== Robert Brown described Tetrameles nudiflora in 1844, from material collected in Java. It is the only species in its genus Tetrameles, and together with Octomeles sumatrana comprise the only two species in the family Tetramelaceae. They were previously classified in the Datiscaceae but found genetically to not form a natural clade with the other members of that family.
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