Taxonavigation

Familia: Lauraceae
Tribus: Laureae
Genus: Apollonias
Species: A. arnottii – A. barbujana

Name

Apollonias Nees Hufeland. Ill. 10. (1833)

• Type species: Apollonias canariensis (Willd.) Nees (1833) vide Apollonias barbujana (Cav.) Bornm.
  

Note: "Persea can be retained as a genus by the inclusion of Apollonias barbujana" {Li et al., 2011), A. arnottii will probably group with an Asian genus, such as Machilus or Phoebe (Li et al., 2011 & Rohwer et al., 2009). Govaerts maintain this genus in synonymy with Persea, but Apollonias arnottii Nees becomes an Unplaced name.

References

• Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. 1833. Plantarum Laurinarum secundum affinitates naturales expositio, qua comprehenditur Hufelandiae Illustratio. 26 pp. Vratislaviaea. BHL Reference page. : 10.
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Apollonias in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 June 13. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2016. Apollonias. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 5 2016.
• Li, L., Li, J., Rohwer, J.G., van der Werff, H., Wang, Z.H. & Li, H.W. 2011. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Persea group (Lauraceae) and its biogeographic implications on the evolution of tropical and subtropical Amphi-Pacific disjunctions. American Journal of Botany 98(9): 1520–1536. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100006 Reference page. 
• Loutfy, M.H. 2001. On the taxonomy of Apollonias Nees (Lauraceae). Evidence from general aspects and cuticular features of leaf & fruit. Taeckholmia 21(1).
• Rohwer, J.G., Li, J., Rudolph, B., Schmidt, S.A., van der Werff, H. & Li, H.W. 2009. Is Persea (Lauraceae) monophyletic? Evidence from nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences. Taxon 58(4): 1153–1167. DOI: 10.1002/tax.584009 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2016. Apollonias. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 5 Oct. 2016.

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