Phoebe
Phoebe is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. There are approximately 100 species in the genus, distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia and neotropical America. 35 species occur in China. The first description of the genus was of the type species P. lanceolata made in 1836 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Systema Laurinarum, p. 98.
26 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Phoebe formosana
speciesPhoebe formosana
Phoebe sheareri
speciesPhoebe sheareri
Phoebe bournei
speciesPhoebe bournei
Phoebe zhennan
speciesPhoebe zhennan
Phoebe chekiangensis
speciesPhoebe chekiangensis
Phoebe lanceolata
speciesPhoebe lanceolata
Phoebe wightii
speciesPhoebe wightii
Phoebe hungmoensis
speciesPhoebe hungmoensis
Phoebe neurantha
speciesPhoebe neurantha
Phoebe hunanensis
speciesPhoebe hunanensis
Phoebe macrocarpa
speciesPhoebe macrocarpa
Phoebe cathia
speciesPhoebe cathia
Phoebe cavaleriei
speciesPhoebe cavaleriei
Phoebe bootanica
speciesPhoebe bootanica
Phoebe tavoyana
speciesPhoebe tavoyana
Phoebe grandis
speciesPhoebe grandis
Phoebe faberi
speciesPhoebe faberi
Phoebe hui
speciesPhoebe hui
Phoebe puwenensis
speciesPhoebe puwenensis
Phoebe pallida
speciesPhoebe pallida
Phoebe attenuata
speciesPhoebe attenuata
Phoebe scortechinii
speciesPhoebe scortechinii
Phoebe megacalyx
speciesPhoebe megacalyx
Phoebe arnottii
speciesPhoebe arnottii
Phoebe hekouensis
speciesPhoebe hekouensis
Phoebe birmanica
speciesPhoebe birmanica
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 185244.