Suriana L.

Pantropical, usually on small isolated islands or coral islets and atolls especially in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; unispecific.

Notes. Bentham & Hooker (Gen. Pl. 1: 303. 1862), Solereder (Syst. Anat. Dicot. 207 - 213. 1899 & in Loesener & Solereder in Verh. Bot. Vereins. Provo Brandenburg 47: 35 62. 1905), Engler (in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 19 a: 367. 1931). Cronquist (in Brittonia 5: 129. 1944), Brizicky (in J. Arn. Arb. 43: 176. 1962), Nooteboom (in Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. 1,6: 196. 1962) and Hutchinson (Fam. Fl. Pl. 440. 1973) keep. Suriana in the family Simaroubaceae. But Arnott (in Wight & Arn., Prodr. 360. 1834). Jadin (in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 8, 13: 224 - 226 & 303. 1901), Record & Hess(Timb. New World 521 - 522. 1949), Gutzwiller (in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 8: 1 - 49. 1961) Nooteboom (in Blumea 14: 309 - 315. 1966) Cronquist (Evol. Class. Fl. Pl. 265. Integr. Syst. Class. Fl. Pl. 583. 1981; Takhtajan (Fl. Reg. World 333. 1986) and Heo & Tobe (in J. Pl. Res. 107, 29 - 37. 1994) consider the genus as a representative of a distinct unigeneric family Surianaceae which is followed here.

List of Lower Taxa