Dipentodon Dunn

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Credits

Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton

Recommended citation
'Dipentodon' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dipentodon/). Accessed 2024-04-19.

Family

Dipentodontaceae

Species in genus

Dipentodon sinicus

Glossary

family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).
monospecific: (of a genus) Including only one species (as e.g. Aextoxicon).

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Credits

Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton

Recommended citation
'Dipentodon' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dipentodon/). Accessed 2024-04-19.

Dipentodontaceae is a monospecific family erected by Merrill (1941) to contain only the species Dipentodon sinicus from southern China, northern Myanmar and northeastern India. Its taxonomic position remains uncertain and the family has been placed in Huerteales by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, alongside Tapisciaceae and the orphan genus Perrottetia, which lacks a family placement (Stevens 2001–2008).

Dipentodon sinicus foliage and capsules (Tregrehan, UK, 9 September 2014). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Dipentodon sinicus is botanically unique, the only member of the family Dipentodontaceae, and is also rare in gardens. Image M. Ogisu.