Aphananthe Planch.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Aphananthe' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aphananthe/). Accessed 2025-11-17.

Family

Cannabaceae

Species in genus

Aphananthe aspera

Glossary

monophyletic: (of a group of taxa) With a single ancestor; part of a natural lineage believed to reflect evolutionary relationships accurately (n. monophyly). (Cf. paraphyly polyphyly.)
unisexual: Having only male or female organs in a flower.

References

Yang, M.-Q. et al. (2017). Phylogeny and biogeography of the amphi-Pacific genus Aphananthe

Credits

This is a placeholder entry.

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Aphananthe' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aphananthe/). Accessed 2025-11-17.

Aphananthe aspera has little claim to a place in any but botanical gardens in the west. Meise Botanical Garden (number 19901526 from Matsudo in Japan), Belgium. 11 October 2008. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Editorial Note

Formerly restricted to East Asia and Australia, Aphananthe has altered markedly in its geographical aspect since Bean treated it. We supply the brief text below, pending a full, revised account, to be provided when funding allows. If you would like to sponsor the account of this genus please contact editor@treesandshrubsonline.org.

A genus of five species allied to Celtis, but differing in its invariably unisexual flowers. Strongly supported as a monophyletic clade, the genus is of biogeographical and evolutionary interest for its intriguing distribution, which includes E. Asia, Australia, Melanesia, Madagascar and Central America. The presence of a Madagascan element in an otherwise ‘amphi-Pacific’ distribution offers an interesting opportunity for the testing of different dispersal and vicariance hypotheses (Yang et al. 2017).