Balanops
Balanops is a group of flowering plants described as a genus in 1871. The nine species are trees or shrubs, found northeast Queensland, Australia, and the South Pacific islands of New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu. Plants in this genus are dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate plants.
Balanops is the sole genus in the family Balanopaceae (formerly the spelling Balanopsidaceae was also used). It is placed in the order Malpighiales and is most closely related to Chrysobalanaceae, Dichapetalaceae, Euphroniaceae and Trigoniaceae.
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pimplebark
speciesBalanops australiana
Balanops pancheri
speciesBalanops pancheri
Balanops balansae
speciesBalanops balansae
Balanops pachyphylla
speciesBalanops pachyphylla
Balanops vieillardii
speciesBalanops vieillardii
Balanops microstachya
speciesBalanops microstachya
Balanops sparsifolia
speciesBalanops sparsifolia
Balanops oliviformis
speciesBalanops oliviformis
Balanops reticulata
speciesBalanops reticulata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 184704.