Atuna

Atuna is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1838.[3][1][4] It is native to India, Southeast Asia, and various islands of the western Pacific.[2]

For Atuna, a small Syro-Hittite city state, see Tunna.

Atuna
Makita tree (Atuna racemosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Chrysobalanaceae
Genus:	Atuna Raf., 1838[1]
Type species
Atuna racemosa Raf.
Synonyms[2]
Cyclandrophora Hassk. Entosiphon Bedd.

Species[2]

1. Atuna cordata Cockburn ex Prance - Sabah
2. Atuna elliptica (Kosterm.) Kosterm. - Fiji
3. Atuna indica (Bedd.) Kosterm. - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
4. Atuna latifrons (Kosterm.) Prance & F.White - Perak
5. Atuna nannodes (Kosterm.) Kosterm. - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo
6. Atuna penangiana (Kosterm.) Kosterm. - Peninsular Malaysia
7. Atuna racemosa Raf. - S Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon, Bismarck, Santa Cruz, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Wallis & Futuna, Caroline
8. Atuna travancorica (Bedd.) Kosterm. - Kerala

References

1. Tropicos, Atuna Raf.
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1838. Sylva telluriana : Mantis. synopt. : new genera and species of trees and shrubs of North America, and other regions of the earth : omitted or mistaken by the botanical authors and compilers, or not properly classified, now reduced by their natural affinities to the proper natural orders and tribes 153-154 description in Latin, commentary in English
4. Prance, G. T. & F. White. 1988. The genera of Chrysobalanaceae: a study in practical and theoretical taxonomy and its relevance to evolutionary biology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 320: 1–184.