Tovomita: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Malpighiales
- Family
- Clusiaceae
- Genus
- Tovomita
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Tovomita
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Tovomita
Tovomita is a genus of flowering plants in the family Clusiaceae. They are noted for having white-yellow latex and containing xanthones. The genus is distributed in the tropical Americas from Costa Rica and the Windward Islands to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil, with many occurring in Venezuela. Most are native to the forests of the Amazon.
Most Tovomita species are trees, and a few are shrubs. They sometimes have buttress roots. There are monoecious and dioecious species.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Tovomita acutiflora
- Tovomita aequatoriensis
- Tovomita albiflora
- Tovomita amazonica
- Tovomita atropurpurea
- Tovomita brevistaminea
- Tovomita calophyllophylla
- Tovomita chachapoyasensis
- Tovomita choisyana
- Tovomita fructipendula
- Tovomita gazelii
- Tovomita guianensis
- Tovomita iaspidis
- Tovomita laurina
- Tovomita leucantha
- Tovomita longifolia
- Tovomita mangle
- Tovomita megantha
- Tovomita microcarpa
- Tovomita obovata
- Tovomita plumieri
- Tovomita salimenae
- Tovomita schomburgkii
- Tovomita stylosa
- Tovomita umbellata
- Tovomita weberbaueri




























