Cullenia

Cullenia is a genus of flowering plants native to India and Sri Lanka. Earlier classification schemes placed the genus in the kapok-tree family (Bombacaceae), but the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group places it in the mallow family (Malvaceae).

Cullenia
Cullenia exarillata fruiting branch
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Helicteroideae
Tribe: Durioneae
Genus: Cullenia
Wight
Species

Cullenia ceylanica
Cullenia exarillata syn. Cullenia excelsa
Cullenia rosayroana

The name is after General William Cullen (1785–1862), a Resident in the court of the Maharaja of Travancore who also took an interest in botany.[1] [2]

References
  1. Britten, James (1888). "Biographical index of British and Irisn Botanists". Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 26: 244–248.
  2. Drury, Heber (1864). Handbook of the Indian Flora. Volume 1. Travancore Sircar Press. pp. 88–89.
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