Mortoniodendron is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Mortoniodendron Standl. & Steyerm. |
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Its native range is southern Mexico to Colombia. It is also found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panamá.[1] Fossils indicate that it has been in its present range since the Miocene. Eocene-aged pollen from Europe and Southern China attributable to the genus indicate a wider distribution in the Northern Hemisphere in the past.[2]
The genus name of Mortoniodendron is in honour of Conrad Vernon Morton (1905–1972), an American botanist who did notable writings on Ferns.[3] It was first described and published in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Series 17 on page 411 in 1938.[1]
Known species
editAccording to Kew:[1]
- Mortoniodendron abelianum Al.Rodr.
- Mortoniodendron anisophyllum (Standl.) Standl. & Steyerm.
- Mortoniodendron apetalum Al.Rodr.
- Mortoniodendron cauliflorum Al.Rodr.
- Mortoniodendron costaricense Standl. & L.O.Williams
- Mortoniodendron guatemalense Standl. & Steyerm.
- Mortoniodendron hirsutum Standl.
- Mortoniodendron longipedunculatum Al.Rodr.
- Mortoniodendron membranaceum Standl. & Steyerm.
- Mortoniodendron ocotense Ishiki & T.Wendt
- Mortoniodendron palaciosii Miranda
- Mortoniodendron pentagonum (Donn.Sm.) Miranda
- Mortoniodendron ruizii Miranda
- Mortoniodendron sulcatum Lundell
- Mortoniodendron uxpanapense Dorr & T.Wendt
- Mortoniodendron vestitum Lundell
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Mortoniodendron Standl. & Steyerm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ^ Hofmann, Christa-Ch.; Kodrul, Tatiana M.; Liu, Xiaoyan; Jin, Jianhua (June 2019). "Scanning electron microscopy investigations of middle to late Eocene pollen from the Changchang Basin (Hainan Island, South China) – Insights into the paleobiogeography and fossil history of Juglans, Fagus, Lagerstroemia, Mortoniodendron, Cornus, Nyssa, Symplocos and some Icacinaceae in SE Asia". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 265: 41–61. Bibcode:2019RPaPa.265...41H. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.02.004. S2CID 134630351.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.