Atuna

For Atuna, a small Syro-Hittite city state, see Tunna.
Atuna
Makita tree (Atuna racemosa)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Chrysobalanaceae
Genus: Atuna
Raf., 1838[1]
Type species
Atuna racemosa
Raf.
Synonyms[2]

Atuna is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae described as a genus in 1838.[3][1][4]

Atuna is native to India, Southeast Asia, and various islands of the western Pacific.[2]

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. 1 2 Tropicos, Atuna Raf.
  2. 1 2 3 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.


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