Pichonia

Pichonia is a group of trees in the Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1890.[2][3]

Pichonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Sapotaceae
Subfamily: Chrysophylloideae
Genus: Pichonia
Pierre
Synonyms[1]
  • Rhamnoluma Baill.
  • Epiluma Baill.
  • Arnanthus Baehni
  • Wokoia Baehni

Pichonia is native to New Caledonia, New Guinea and nearby Islands in Indonesia and Papuasia.[1][4][5]

Species[1]
  1. Pichonia balansae - New Caledonia
  2. Pichonia balansana - New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
  3. Pichonia daenikeri - New Caledonia
  4. Pichonia deplanchei - New Caledonia
  5. Pichonia dubia - New Caledonia
  6. Pichonia grandiflora - New Caledonia
  7. Pichonia lauterbachiana - New Guinea, Maluku, Bismarck
  8. Pichonia lecomtei - New Caledonia
  9. Pichonia occidentalis - New Guinea, Maluku
  10. Pichonia sessiliflora - Solomon Islands

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pierre, Jean Baptiste Louis 1890. Notes Botaniques: Sapotacées 22.
  3. Tropicos, Pichonia Pierre
  4. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Pennington, D. (2001 publ. 2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Sapotaceae: 1-364. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. Swenson, U., Bartish, I.V. & Munzinger, J. (2007). Phylogeny, diagnostic characters and generic limitation of Australasian Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae, Ericales): evidence from ITS sequence data and morphology. Cladistics 23: 201-228.


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