Stemonoporus elegans: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malvales
- Family
- Dipterocarpaceae
- Genus
- Stemonoporus
- Species
- Stemonoporus elegans
- Scientific Name
- Stemonoporus elegans
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stemonoporus elegans
Stemonoporus elegans is a species of flowering plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to southwestern Sri Lanka. It is a small to medium-sized tree native to the southern slope of Adam's Peak, where it forms small subpopulations in submontane rain forest.
The species was first described as Monoporandra elegans by George Henry Kendrick Thwaites in 1954. In 1931 Arthur Hugh Garfit Alston placed the species in genus Stemonoporus as S. elegans.
...Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Stemonoporus acuminatus
- Stemonoporus affinis
- Stemonoporus angustisepalus
- Stemonoporus bullatus
- Stemonoporus canaliculatus
- Stemonoporus cordifolius
- Stemonoporus elegans
- Stemonoporus gardneri
- Stemonoporus gilimalensis
- Stemonoporus gracilis
- Stemonoporus kanneliyensis
- Stemonoporus laevifolius
- Stemonoporus lanceolatus
- Stemonoporus lancifolius
- Stemonoporus latisepalus
- Stemonoporus marginalis
- Stemonoporus moonii
- Stemonoporus nitidus
- Stemonoporus oblongifolius
- Stemonoporus petiolaris
- Stemonoporus reticulatus
- Stemonoporus revolutus
- Stemonoporus rigidus
- Stemonoporus scaphifolius