muntingia family
Muntingiaceae
The Muntingiaceae are a family of flowering plants, belonging to the rosid order Malvales. The family consists of three genera: Dicraspidia, Muntingia and Neotessmannia, each with a single species. They are woody plants of the tropical regions of America. The older Cronquist System placed these genera in the family Tiliaceae, with which they share morphological similarities but have no evolutionary affinity. Muntingia calabura is widely introduced in tropical regions, because of its edible fruit. Dicraspidia donnell-smithii...
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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 71573.