Malmeoideae Explained

The Malmeoideae^[1] are a subfamily of trees and other plants of the family Annonaceae.

Tribes and Genera

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, which recognises Malmeoideae as one of four subfamilies, containing 9 tribes^[2] and the following genera:

Auth: Couvreur et al., 2019^[3]

• Annickia Setten & Maas - monotypic tribe with African genus

Auth: Chatrou & Saunders 2012 - African genera:

• Brieya
• Greenwayodendron Verdc.
• Mwasumbia Couvreur & D.M. Johnson
• Piptostigma Oliv.
• Polyceratocarpus Engl. & Diels
• Sirdavidia Couvreur (monotypic)

Auth: Chatrou & Saunders 2012 - tropical Americas^[4]

• Bocageopsis R.E.Fr.
• Cremastosperma R.E.Fr.
• Ephedranthus S.Moore
• Klarobelia Chatrou
• Malmea R.E.Fr.
• Mosannona Chatrou
• Onychopetalum R.E.Fr.
• Oxandra A.Rich. (black lancewood)
• Pseudephedranthus Aristeg.
• Pseudomalmea Chatrou
• Pseudoxandra R.E.Fr.
• Ruizodendron R.E.Fr.
• Unonopsis R.E.Fr.

Auth: Chatrou & Saunders 2012

• Maasia Mols et al. - W Indo-China to New Guinea

Auth: Chatrou & Saunders 2012

• Fenerivia Diels - Madagascar endemic

• Phoenicanthus Alston - Sri Lanka

Auth: Chatrou & Saunders 2012

• Dendrokingstonia Rauschert - W Malesia

Auth: Chatrou & Saunders 2012

• Monocarpia Miq. - western Malesia
• Leoheo – Vietnam^[5]

Miliuseae

Auth: Hooker & Thomson 1855

• Alphonsea Hook.f. & Thomson (S. China to Tropical Asia)
• Desmopsis Saff. (Mexico to Colombia, Cuba)
• Huberantha Chaowasku (Tropical & Subtropical Africa & Asia, Madagascar, SW. Pacific)
• Marsypopetalum Scheff. (Hainan, Indo-China to W. & Central Malesia)
• Meiogyne Miq. (India, Indochina to Australia, Fiji)
• Miliusa Lesch. ex A.DC. (Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. Australia)
• Mitrephora (Blume) Hook.f. & Thomson (S India, Southeast Asia)
• Monoon Miq. (India, Indo-China, Malesia, New Guinea and Australia)
• Neo-uvaria Airy Shaw (Indo-China to W. & Central Malesia)
• Orophea Blume (Tropical & Subtropical Asia)
• Phaeanthus Hook.f. & Thomson (Vietnam to New Guinea)
• Platymitra Boerl. (Thailand to W. & Central Malesia)
• Polyalthia Blume (Madagascar, Tropical & Subtropical Asia to NE. Australia)
• Polyalthiopsis Chaowasku (Vietnam)
• Popowia Endl. (tropical Asia and Africa and Oceania)
• Pseuduvaria Miq. (tropical SE Asia)
• Sageraea Dalzell (tropical Asia)
• Sapranthus Seem. (Mexico to Colombia)
• Stelechocarpus Hook.f. & Thompson (Indo-China to Western and Central Malesia)^[6]
• Stenanona Standl. (Mexico, Central and South America)
• Tridimeris Baill. (Mexico)
• Trivalvaria (Miq.) Miq. (Tropical Asia including Hainan)
• Wangia X. Guo & R.M.K. Saunders (central & southern China)
• Wuodendron B.Xue, Y.H.Tan & Chaowasku (China, Vietnam)

Notes and References

1. Chatrou LW, Pirie MD, Erkens RHJ, Couvreur TLP, Neubig KM, Abbott JR, Mols JB, Maas JW, Saunders RMK, Chase MW (2012) A new subfamilial and tribal classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 169(1): 5–40. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01235.x.
2. Web site: List of Genera in ANNONACEAE . . 2001 . 13 . Stevens . P.F. . 30 December 2017.
3. Couvreur . Thomas L.P. . Helmstetter . Andrew J. . Koenen . Erik J.M. . Bethune . Kevin . Brandão . Rita D. . Little . Stefan A. . Sauquet . Hervé . Erkens . Roy H.J. . 2019-01-09 . Phylogenomics of the Major Tropical Plant Family Annonaceae Using Targeted Enrichment of Nuclear Genes . Frontiers in Plant Science . 9 . 1941 . 10.3389/fpls.2018.01941 . 1664-462X . 6334231 . 30687347. free .
4. Erkens . Roy . Oosterhof . Jessica . Westra . Lubbert Y.Th. . Maas . Paul J.M. . Revisions of Ruizodendron and Pseudephedranthus (Annonaceae) including a new species and an overview of most up-to-date revisions of Neotropical Annonaceae genera . PhytoKeys . 2017 . 86 . 75–96 . 10.3897/phytokeys.86.13773. free . 29158697 . 5672117 .
5. Chaowasku, T., A. Damthongdee, H. Jongsook, D.T. Ngo, H.T. Le, D.M. Tran & S. Suddee (2018). Enlarging the monotypic Monocarpieae (Annonaceae, Malmeoideae): recognition of a second genus from Vietnam informed by morphology and molecular phylogenetics. Candollea 73: 261–275. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15553/c2018v732a11
6. Web site: Stelechocarpus Hook.f. & Thomson| Plants of the World Online | Kew Science. Plants of the World Online. 3 June 2024.