Pakaraimoideae

Pakaraimoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Cistaceae with just one genus and a single species, Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea, from Guyana, and Venezuela in South America. It is found in the Imbaimadai Savanna, the adjacent Partang Savanna, the Guaianan highlands and Pacaraima Mountains in Guyana and Bolivar State in Venezuela.[1] It was formerly placed in Dipterocarpaceae, but is now known to belong to Cistaceae[2]

Pakaraimoideae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Malvales
Family:
Cistaceae
Subfamily:
Pakaraimoideae

Maguire, P.S.Ashton & de Zeeuw
Genera

Pakaraimaea

References
  1. Bassett Maguire and Peter S. Ashton (1980). "Pakaraimaea dipterocarpacea II". Taxon. 29 (2/3): 225–231. doi:10.2307/1220284. JSTOR 1220284.
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–20, doi:10.1111/boj.12385


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