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Garcinia

Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Clusiaceae

Taxonomy
Garcinia was named by Linnaeus (1753). It is extant.

It was assigned to Guttiferae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976); and to Clusiaceae by Lindley (1836), Srivastava (1991) and Prasad (2008).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1753Garcinia Linnaeus
1836Garcinia Lindley
1976Garcinia Lakhanpal et al.
1991Garcinia Srivastava
2008Garcinia Prasad

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
Rosids
Eurosids
RankNameAuthor
Fabid
orderMalpighiales
familyClusiaceaeLindley 1836
genusGarcinia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Garcinia Linnaeus 1753
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Garcinia borooahii Lakhanpal 1964
Garcinia corvinusiana Prasad and Pandey 2008
Garcinia eocambogia Prasad 1994
Garcinia indica Choisy 1824
Garcinia nepalensis Prasad et al. 1999
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Diet: "photoautotroph"p
Created: 2011-07-22 00:04:15
Modified: 2011-07-21 09:04:15
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Kiessling 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 56.00000 to 0.78100 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Eocene56.0 - 33.9India (Rajasthan) G. borooahii (224742)
Oligocene33.9 - 23.03India G. sp. (212868)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333Nepal G. nepalensis (222898)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333India (Maharashtra) G. sp., G. indica (227811)
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588Nepal G. corvinusiana (222975)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608India (Uttarakhand) G. eocambogia (222797)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588China (Yunnan) G. multiflora (224402)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Ethiopia G. huilensis (22030)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Australia (Victoria) G. cuspidata (172830 172832 172833)