Cullenia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Malvales

Familia: Malvaceae
Subfamilia: Helicteroideae
Tribus: Durioneae
Genus: Cullenia
Species: C. exarillata – C. excelsa – C. rosayroana – C. zeylanica
Name

Cullenia Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. [Wight] tt. 1761, 1762. (1852)
Note: Except for Cullenia exarillata, the other combinations are unresolved and not accepted across all of the cited sources.
References

Wight R. 1852. Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 1761, 1762.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Cullenia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Dec. 27. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Cullenia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Dec. 27. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Cullenia. Published online. Accessed: Dec. 27 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Cullenia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Dec. 2020.

Cullenia is a genus of flowering plants native to India and Sri Lanka. Earlier classification schemes place the genus in the kapok-tree family (Bombacaceae), but the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group places it in the mallow family (Malvaceae).

The name is after General William Cullen (1785–1862), a Resident in the court of the Maharaja of Travancore who also took an interest in botany.[1] [2]
References

Britten, James (1888). "Biographical index of British and Irisn Botanists". Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 26: 244–248.
Drury, Heber (1864). Handbook of the Indian Flora. Volume 1. Travancore Sircar Press. pp. 88–89.