Castilleae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordoo: Rosales

Familia: Moraceae
Tribus: Castilleae
Subtribus: Antiaropsineae – Castillineae
Genera: Antiaris – Antiaropsis – Castilla – Helicostylis – Maquira – Mesogyne – Naucleopsis – Perebea – Poulsenia – Pseudolmedia – Sparattosyce

Name

Castilleae C.C.Berg Acta Bot. Neerl. 26: 78. (1977), nom. cons.

Type genus: Castilla Cerv. Gaz. Lit. México 7–10. (1794)

References

Berg, C.C. 1977. Acta botanica neerlandica 26(1): 78.
Clement, W.L. & Weiblen, G.D. 2009. Morphological evolution in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Systematic Botany, 34: 530–552. DOI: 10.1600/036364409789271155 Full text PDF Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Castilleae. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 26 2016.
Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page.

The Castilleae are a tribe within the plant family Moraceae. It includes eight to 11 genera and 55–60 species including Castilla, the Panama rubber tree.

Members of the tribe are primarily Neotropical with two Afrotropical genera, one genus in New Guinea, and one in New Caledonia.[1]

The tribe's distinctive inflorescence is unisexual in monoecious species, with discoid to urceolate receptacles with involucrate bracts. Other characteristics of the group include septate wood fibers and self-pruning branches.[2]
Castilleae and Ficus

Recent phylogenetic studies have highlighted a close sister relationship with the Ficus and have strongly supported the monophyly of the clade containing the Castilleae and Ficus.[2] The ancestral state of this clade and the origin of figs' distinctive inflorescence—the syconium—was disputed until recently, but new phylogenetic analyses suggest that the evolution of entomophily and of an involucre of bracts surrounding the flower primordia preceded the divergence of these two groups, estimated to have occurred at least 83 Mya.
Genera

Antiaris
Antiaropsis
Castilla
Helicostylis
Maquira
Mesogyne
Naucleopsis
Perebea
Poulsenia
Pseudolmedia
Sparattosyce[3]

References

Zerega, Nyree J. C.; Wendy L. Clement; Shannon L. Datwyler; George D. Weiblen (2005). "Biogeography and divergence times in the mulberry family (Moraceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37 (2): 402–16. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.004. PMID 16112884.
Datwyler, Shannon L.; Weiblen, George D. (2004). "On the origin of the fig: phylogenetic relationships of Moraceae from ndhF sequences". American Journal of Botany. 91 (5): 767–777. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.5.767. PMID 21653431. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
"Genera of Moraceae tribe Castilleae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2012-05-26. Retrieved 2009-03-11.