Styracaceae

Styrax L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 444 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is New World, SE. Europe to NW. Pacific.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kentucky, Korea, Kriti, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Solomon Is., South Carolina, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Virginia, Windward Is., Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Connecticut, France, Guinea, Mauritius, New York, Pennsylvania

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Nov 4, 2015 Deden, G. [Deden 966], Sulawesi K000618514 No

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Trees of New Guinea

    • Trees of New Guinea
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0