Pottingeria

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Pottingeria is a genus consisting of a single species, Pottingeria acuminata, a small tree or large shrub native to mountainous areas of southeast Asia (Assam, Myanmar, and Thailand).

It had long been thought, at least by some, to belong in the order Celastrales.{{citation |author1=Herbert K. Airy-Shaw |author2=David F. Cutler |author3=Siwert Nilsson |name-list-style=amp | year = 1973 | title = Pottingeria, its taxonomic position, anatomy, and palynology | journal = Kew Bulletin | volume = 28 | issue = 1 | pages = 97–104 | doi = 10.2307/4117067 |jstor=4117067 |bibcode=1973KewBu..28...97S }} In a phylogenetic study of that order in 2006, Pottingeria was found to be a member of the order, but not of any of its families. It was in an unresolved pentatomy consisting of Parnassiaceae, Pottingeria, Mortonia, the pair (Quetzalia + Zinowiewia), and the other genera of Celastraceae.{{citation |author1=Li-Bing Zhang |author2=Mark P. Simmons |name-list-style=amp | year = 2006 | title = Phylogeny and delimitation of the Celastrales inferred from nuclear and plastid genes | journal = Systematic Botany | volume = 31 | issue = 1 | pages = 122–137 | doi=10.1600/036364406775971778|s2cid=86095495 }} When the APG III system was published in October 2009, the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group expanded Celastraceae to include all members of the pentatomy mentioned above.Peter F. Stevens (2001 onwards). [http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/Celastralesweb.html#Celastrales Celastrales] At: Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. At: Missouri Botanical Garden Website. Armen Takhtajan had placed Pottingeria in a monotypic family in 1987,James L. Reveal. 2008 onward. "A Checklist of Family and Suprafamilial Names for Extant Vascular Plants." At: Home page of James L. Reveal and C. Rose Broome. (see External links below). but he later treated it as a subfamily of Celastraceae."Celastraceae" pages 411-412. In: Armen L. Takhtajan (Takhtadzhian). Flowering Plants second edition (2009). {{ISBN|978-1-4020-9608-2}}.