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Franklinia
Description | Franklinia is a monotypic genus in the tea plant family, Theaceae. The sole species in this genus is a flowering tree, Franklinia alatamaha, commonly called the Franklin tree, and native to the Altamaha River valley in Georgia in the southeastern United States. It has been extinct in the wild since the early 19th century, but survives as a cultivated ornamental tree. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklinia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Aves : Franklinia | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Franklinia Jerdon, 1863 | |||||||
Name Published In | Birds India, 2 | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklinia |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Franklinia rubescens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
References
Birds India, 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!