''Trophis'' is a genus in the plant family
Moraceae
Moraceae is a family of flowering plants comprising about 48 genera and over 1100 species, and is commonly known as the mulberry or fig family. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates; however, their ...
which includes five species native to the tropical Americas, ranging from Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to Peru and northern Brazil.
[ It is dioecious, with male and female flowers borne on separate plants.
Phylogenetic studies suggested that the genus as formerly circumscribed was ]polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...
,[Nepal, M. P., & Ferguson, C. J. (2012). Phylogenetics of Morus (Moraceae) Inferred from ITS and trnL-trnF Sequence Data. ''Systematic Botany'', 37(2), 442–450. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41515134]
Species
Five species are currently accepted.[
*'' Trophis cuspidata'' Lundell
*'' Trophis involucrata'' W.C.Burger
*'' Trophis mexicana'' (Liebm.) Bureau
*'' Trophis noraminervae'' Cuevas & Carvajal
*'']Trophis racemosa
''Trophis racemosa'', commonly named white ramoon, is a species of plant of the fig family native to Latin America
Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish lan ...
'' (L.) Urb.
References
Moraceae
Moraceae genera
Dioecious plants
Flora of the Neotropical realm
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