List of Clusiaceae genera explained

Delineation of plant family Clusiaceae, and the subdivisions within the family, have been much revised over the past few decades.

Accepted genera

18 genera are currently accepted:^[1]

• Allanblackia
• Chrysochlamys
• Clusia
• Dystovomita
• Garcinia
• Havetiopsis
• Lebrunia
• Lorostemon
• Montrouziera
• Moronobea
• Nouhuysia
• Pentadesma
• Platonia
• Quapoya
• Symphonia
• Thysanostemon
• Tovomita
• Tovomitopsis

Classification

The family Clusiaceae was divided by Cronquist into 2 subfamilies: the Clusioideae (typical subfamily) and the Hypericoideae. The latter was often treated as a family - the Hypericaceae or St. John's wort family. Elements of the Hypericoideae are more common in North temperate areas and those of the Clusioideae are centered in the Tropics.

Later classifications however divide the family in a finer way. The taxonomy below mostly follows that of Stevens.^{[2] [3]} Molecular studies have shown that the family Podostemaceae - the riverweeds - as well as the Theaceae-segregate Bonnetiaceae need to be included in this group. Their inclusions make Clusiaceae in a wide-sense polyphyletic, and Stevens's subfamilies need to be recognised at family level: Clusioideae as Clusiaceae sensu stricto; Hypericoideae as Hypericaceae; and Kielmeyeroideae as Calophyllaceae.^[4]

Subfamily Clusioideae

Synonyms are in parentheses:

Tribe Clusieae^[5]

• Chrysochlamys (Balboa, Commirhoea, and Poecilostemon)

• Clusia (Androstylium, Cochlanthera, Decaphalangium, Havetia, Havetiopsis, Oedematopus, Oxystemon, Pilosperma, Quapoya, Renggeria, Rengifa, etc.)

• Dystovomita

• Tovomita (Arawakia, Beauharnoisia, Euthales Marialva, Micranthera, and Tovomitidium)

• Tovomitopsis (Bertolonia)

Tribe Garcinieae

• Garcinia (Brindonia, Cambogia, Clusianthemum, Mangostana, Oxycarpus, Pentaphalangium, Rheedia, Septogarcinia, Tripetalum, Tsimatimia, Verticillaria, Xanthochymus) - saptree, mangosteen

Tribe Moronobeeae

• Moronobea

Tribe Platonieae

• Platonia (Aristoclesia)

Tribe Symphonieae

• Montrouziera

• Symphonia (Actinostigma, Aneuriscus, Chrysopia)

Tribe ?

• Allanblackia

• Lorostemon

• Pentadesma

• Thysanostemon

Subfamily Hypericoideae

This subfamily comprises 3 tribes; synonyms are in parentheses:

Tribe Cratoxyleae

Cratoxylum (Cratoxylon)

Eliea (Eliaea)

Thornea

Triadenum - marsh St. Johnswort

Tribe Hypericeae

Hypericum (Adenotrias, Androsaemum, Androsemum, Ascyrum, Lianthus, Olympia, Sanidophyllum, Sarothra, Takasagoya, Triadenia) - St John's Wort

Santomasia

Tribe Vismieae

Harungana (Haronga)

Psorospermum

Vismia

Subfamily Kielmeyeroideae

This subfamily comprises 2 tribes:

Tribe Calophylleae (12 genera)

Calophyllum

Caraipa

Clusiella (Asthotheca, Astrotheca)

Haploclathra

Kayea

Kielmeyera

Mahurea

Mammea (Ochrocarpos, Paramammea) - mammee apple (sometimes put in Garcinieae)

Marila

Mesua (Vidalia)

Neotatea

Poeciloneuron

Tribe Endodesmieae (contains 2 African monotypic genera)

Endodesmia

Lebrunia

Bibliography

• Paul . van Rijckevorsel . (1564) Proposal to Conserve the Name Platonia insignis against Moronobea esculenta (Guttiferae) . Taxon . 51 . 4 . November 2002 . 813–815 . 10.2307/1555050. 1555050. free .

Notes and References

1. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000758-2 Clusiaceae Lindl.
2. Stevens . P. F. . A Revision of the Old World Species of Calophyllum (guttiferae) . Journal of the Arnold Arboretum . 1980 . 61 . 2 . 117–424 . 10.5962/bhl.part.8541 . 43782071 . free .
3. Stevens . P. F. . A Revision of the Old World Species of Calophyllum (guttiferae) . Journal of the Arnold Arboretum . 1980 . 61 . 3 . 425–699 . 10.5962/p.185896 . 43782073 . free .
4. APG III (2009)
5. Marinho . Lucas C. . Cai . Liming . Duan . Xiaoshan . Ruhfel . Brad R. . Fiaschi . Pedro . Amorim . André M. . van den Berg . Cássio . Davis . Charles C. . Plastomes resolve generic limits within tribe Clusieae (Clusiaceae) and reveal the new genus Arawakia . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . May 2019 . 134 . 142–151 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.005 . 30743062 . free .