Balanops

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Balanopaceae
Genus: Balanops
Species: B. australiana – B. balansae – B. microstachya – B. oliviformis – B. pachyphylla – B. pancheri – B. pedicellata – B. sparsifolia – B. vieillardii
Name

Balanops Baill., Adansonia 10: 117 (1871)
Type species: Balanops vieillardii Baill., Adansonia 10: 118 (1872)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Ternstroemiacearum Seem., Bonplandia (Hannover) 9: 254 (1861), nom. nud.
Trilocularia Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 39: 94 (1906)

References

Baillon, H.E. 1871. Adansonia 10: 117.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2014. Balanops in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 Aug 18. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2014. Balanops. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2014 Aug 18.
International Plant Names Index. 2014. Balanops. Published online. Accessed: Aug 18 2014.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Balanops in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.
Balanops is a group of flowering plants described as a genus in 1871.[3][4] The nine species are trees or shrubs, found in New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, and northern Queensland.[5] They are dioecious, with separate male and female plants.[6]

The genus by itself constitutes the family Balanopaceae (formerly the spelling Balanopsidaceae was also used). It is placed in the order Malpighiales and is related to Chrysobalanaceae, Dichapetalaceae, Euphroniaceae and Trigoniaceae.
List of species

Balanops australiana - Queensland
Balanops balansae - New Caledonia
Balanops microstachya - New Caledonia
Balanops oliviformis - New Caledonia
Balanops pachyphylla - New Caledonia
Balanops pancheri - New Caledonia
Balanops pedicellata - Vanuatu, Fiji
Balanops sparsifolia - New Caledonia
Balanops vieillardii- New Caledonia

References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1871. Adansonia 10: 117-119 in Latin
Tropicos, Balanops Baill.
Carlquist, S. (1980). Anatomy and systematics of Balanopaceae. Allertonia, 2(3), 191-246. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23186109
Kubitzki, K. (2014). "Balanopaceae". Flowering Plants. Eudicots. pp. 9–11. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39417-1_2. ISBN 978-3-642-39416-4.