Gmelina 

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Asterids > Lamiales > Lamiaceae > Gmelina

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Plant  information

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Etymology:   

• It was named by Carl Linnaeus in honour of botanist Johann Georg Gmelin

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Distribution:                  

•  It consists of about 35 species in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Southeast Asia, India and a few in Africa

• Some species such as G. arborea have been planted and/or become naturalised in India, Africa and Australia

Additional notes:     

• Gmelina is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae

• Species

  • This listing draws from de Kok's 2012 revision of this genus, and additional sources including IPNI, APNI and the Flora of China

    • Gmelina arborea – India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, S. China, (mainland southeast Asia region)

    • Gmelina asiatica – India, Sri Lanka, Burma, China, Thailand, Vietnam, (southeast Asia)

    • Gmelina australis – Northern Territory, Australia

    • Gmelina basifilum – New Guinea, New Britain

    • Gmelina chinensis – S. China, Laos, Vietnam

    • Gmelina dalrympleana – Wet tropics & Cape York, Australia, New Guinea

    • Gmelina delavayana – Sichuan & Yunnan, China endemic

    • Gmelina elliptica – India, Burma, S. China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, (SE. Asia)

    • Gmelina evoluta – New Caledonia

    • Gmelina fasciculiflora (Northern white beech )– Wet Tropics Australia

    • Gmelina hainanensis – S. China, Vietnam

    • Gmelina hollrungii – Moluccas, New Guinea, NT, N. Qld & WA, Solomon Is.

    • Gmelina lecomtei – Yunnan, Kwantung, Hainan, China, Laos, Vietnam

    • Gmelina ledermannii – New Guinea

    • Gmelina leichhardtii (White beech) – eastern NSW & QLD, Australia

    • Gmelina lepidota – Moluccas, New Guinea, New Britain

    • Gmelina lignum-vitreum – endangered New Caledonia endemic

    • Gmelina magnifica – New Caledonia

    • Gmelina moluccana – Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Is.

    • Gmelina neocaledonica – New Caledonia

    • Gmelina palawensis

    • subsp. celebica – Sulawesi

    • subsp. palawensis – Palau Is.

    • Gmelina papuana – New Guinea

    • Gmelina peltata – Solomon Is.

    • Gmelina philippensis – Philippines, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand

    • Gmelina racemosa – Hainan Island & southern China, Vietnam

    • Gmelina salomonensis – Solomon Is. endemic

    • Gmelina schlechteri – New Guinea

    • Gmelina sessilis – New Guinea, New Britain

    • Gmelina smithii Moldenke – New Guinea

    • Gmelina szechwanensis – Sichuan China, de Kok did not see the type specimen but considers this within G. philippinensis

    • Gmelina tholicola Mabb. – New Caledonia

    • Gmelina uniflora Stapf – Borneo endemic

    • Gmelina vitiensis – Fiji endemic

Source of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmelina (2023)