3-522: Hunga is a genus of plants in the family Chrysobalanaceae described by British botanist Ghillean Prance in 1979. Species in this genus are native to New Guinea and New Caledonia . This genus includes the following species: This Malpighiales article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Chrysobalanaceae See text . Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants , consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with
6-459: A centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for rigidity and so the mesophyll often has sclerenchymatous idioblasts . The widespread species Chrysobalanus icaco produces a plum-like fruit and the plant is commonly known as the coco plum. The family was traditionally placed as subfamily Chrysobalanoideae in the rose family ( Rosaceae ) or as a family in
9-586: The rose order and exceptionally as an order in Myrtiflorae by Dahlgren In the phenotypic cladistic analysis of Nandi et al., it branched with Elaeagnaceae as sister group of Polygalaceae , in their molecular cladistic analysis it was in Malpighiales and also in their combined analysis. As of February 2023 , Plants of the World Online accepted the following genera: This Malpighiales article
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