''Sloanea'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s in the

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Elaeocarpaceae Elaeaocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family contains approximately 615 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genera."Elaeocarpaceae" In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.). ''The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants'' vol. VI. Springer-Verlag: B ...

, comprising about 150 species. Species include: * '' Sloanea acutiflora'' Uittien * '' Sloanea assamica'' Rehder & E. Wilson * '' Sloanea australis''

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, an Australian rainforest tree * ''

Sloanea berteroana ''Sloanea berteroana'' is a tree of the Caribbean region. The name is often misspelled as ''Sloanea berteriana''.See, for example"Puerto Rico Statewide Assessment and Strategies for Forest Resources." Government of Puerto Rico. Department of Na ...

'' Choisy ex DC. * '' Sloanea caribaea'' Krug & Urb. ex Duss * '' Sloanea gracilis'' Uittien * '' Sloanea lepida'' Tirel * '' Sloanea shankii'' Standl. & L.O.Williams * '' Sloanea suaveolens'' Tirel * ''

Sloanea tomentosa ''Sloanea tomentosa'' is a species of plant in the Elaeocarpaceae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a coun ...

'' Rehder & E. Wilson * '' Sloanea woollsii''

, an Australian rainforest tree

Fossil record

†''Sloanea olmediaefolia'' has been described from many fossil leaves collected from

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from 1857 to 1889 in Santa Giustina and

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in Central

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leaves of this species have also been collected from the continental (

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and limnic) beds of the

Csatka Csatka (german: Tschatkau) is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine ...

Formation near

Oroszlány Oroszlány (german: Ohreslahn) is a city in Hungary, Komárom-Esztergom county, Central Transdanubia region, located on the North-West flanks of the Vértes Mountains. It has a population of 20.487. The main tourist attraction of the town is the ...

(western

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, northeastern

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); these beds are from the 34 million years old

Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but ...

regional stage Kiscellian.Oligocene plant remains from Oroszlány, Hungary by Ildikó Selmeczi and Lilla Hably - Article in Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 256(3):353-361 · June 2010 - DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0058

References

External links

Elaeocarpaceae
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