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Oncotheca humboldtiana herbarium specimen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Icacinales |
Family: | Oncothecaceae KobuskiexAiry Shaw[2] |
Genus: | Oncotheca Baill.[1] |
Species[1] | |
Oncotheca is a genus of tree endemic to New Caledonia. There are two species,[3][4] Oncotheca balansae and Oncotheca humboldtiana.
Oncotheca is the sole genus of the Oncothecaceae, which is one of three families of flowering plants endemictoNew Caledonia. Its placement has been enigmatic for a long time, but a recent phylogenetic analysis[5] based on 73 plastid genes found it to be sister to Icacinaceae. It is now placed in the order Icacinales.[6][7]
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