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Symphonia
Symphonia is a genus of tropical woody plants, specifically trees in the family Clusiaceae. The genus has its diversity center in Madagascar and one species (Symphonia globulifera) disjunct in the Afrotropic and the Neotropic in the Amazon rainforest.
Because of this particular distribution pattern, the origin of the genus is controversial: two hypotheses have been proposed, one suggesting an Amazon origin, the other a Madagascar origin.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
boarwood
speciesSymphonia globulifera
Symphonia microphylla
speciesSymphonia microphylla
Symphonia clusioides
speciesSymphonia clusioides
Symphonia tanalensis
speciesSymphonia tanalensis
Symphonia pauciflora
speciesSymphonia pauciflora
Symphonia louvelii
speciesSymphonia louvelii
Symphonia fasciculata
speciesSymphonia fasciculata
Symphonia urophylla
speciesSymphonia urophylla
Symphonia eugenioides
speciesSymphonia eugenioides
Symphonia gymnoclada
speciesSymphonia gymnoclada
Symphonia lepidocarpa
speciesSymphonia lepidocarpa
Symphonia linearis
speciesSymphonia linearis
Symphonia nectarifera
speciesSymphonia nectarifera
Symphonia oligantha
speciesSymphonia oligantha
Symphonia sessiliflora
speciesSymphonia sessiliflora
Symphonia verrucosa
speciesSymphonia verrucosa
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 186831.