Gmelina Explained
Gmelina is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae. It consists of about 35 species, native to Australia, Southeast Asia, India, New Guinea and New Caledonia. Some species such as G. arborea have been planted and/or become naturalised in India, Africa and Australia. It was named by Carl Linnaeus in honour of botanist Johann Georg Gmelin.
Species
This listing draws from de Kok's 2012 revision of this genus, and additional sources including IPNI, APNI and the Flora of China.
- Gmelina arborea – India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, S. China, (mainland southeast Asia region)
- Gmelina asiatica – India, Sri Lanka, Burma, China, Thailand, Vietnam, (southeast Asia)
- Gmelina australis – Northern Territory, Australia
- Gmelina basifilum – New Guinea, New Britain
- Gmelina chinensis – S. China, Laos, Vietnam
- Gmelina dalrympleana – Wet tropics & Cape York, Australia, New Guinea
- Gmelina delavayana – Sichuan & Yunnan, China endemic
- Gmelina elliptica – India, Burma, S. China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, (SE. Asia)
- Gmelina evoluta – New Caledonia
- Gmelina fasciculiflora, Northern white beech – Wet Tropics Australia
- Gmelina hainanensis – S. China, Vietnam
- Gmelina hollrungii – Moluccas, New Guinea, NT, N. Qld & WA, Solomon Is.
- Gmelina lecomtei – Yunnan, Kwantung, Hainan, China, Laos, Vietnam
- Gmelina ledermannii – New Guinea
- Gmelina leichhardtii, White beech – eastern NSW & QLD, Australia
- Gmelina lepidota – Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain
- Gmelina lignum-vitreum – endangered New Caledonia endemic
- Gmelina magnifica – New Caledonia
- Gmelina moluccana – Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Is.
- Gmelina neocaledonica – New Caledonia
- Gmelina palawensis
- subsp. celebica – Sulawesi
- subsp. palawensis – Palau Is.
- Gmelina papuana – New Guinea
- Gmelina peltata – Solomon Is.
- Gmelina philippensis – Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand
- Gmelina racemosa ; syn.: G. hainanensis – Hainan Island & southern China, Vietnam
- Gmelina salomonensis – Solomon Is. endemic
- Gmelina schlechteri – New Guinea
- Gmelina sessilis – New Guinea, New Britain
- Gmelina smithii – New Guinea
- Gmelina szechwanensis – Sichuan China, de Kok did not see the type specimen but considers this within G. philippinensis
- Gmelina tholicola – New Caledonia
- Gmelina uniflora – Borneo endemic
- Gmelina vitiensis – Fiji endemic
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