''Sloanea'' is a

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s in the

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Elaeocarpaceae Elaeocarpaceae 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: Ber ...

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

Sloanea australis ''Sloanea australis'', commonly known as the maiden's blush, is a rainforest tree of eastern Australia. The range of natural distribution is from near Batemans Bay (35° S) in southern New South Wales to Cape Tribulation (16° S) in tro ...

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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 Nat ...

'' Choisy ex DC. * ''

Sloanea caribaea ''Sloanea caribaea'', commonly known as acomat boucan, is a tree of the eastern Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mos ...

'' 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, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name un ...

'' Rehder & E. Wilson * ''

Sloanea woollsii ''Sloanea woollsii'', commonly known as yellow carabeen, carribin, grey carrobean, or eslanea amarela in Portuguese, is a large tree species with Buttress root, plank buttresses that is native to northeastern NSW and eastern Queensland, Austral ...

, an

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n 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

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) beds of the

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Formation near

Oroszlány Oroszlány () is a city in Hungary, Komárom-Esztergom county, Central Transdanubia region, located on the north-west flanks of the Vértes Mountains. The city has a population of 20.487. The main tourist attraction of the town is the 18th-century ...

(western

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, northeastern

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); these beds are from the 34 million years old

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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

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