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Meliosma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Sabiaceae, native to tropical to warm temperate regions of southern and eastern Asia and the Americas. It is traditionally considered to contain about 100 species; some botanists take a much more conservative view accepting only 20-25 species as distinct. They are trees or shrubs, growing to 10–45 m tall.
Fossil evidence shows the genus formerly had a much wider range in the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and central Asia until the late Pliocene ice ages, and somewhat earlier in North America. At least 17 species of Meliosma are known from Peru.
Meliosma cordata · Meliosma linearifolia · Meliosma littlei · Meliosma oldhamii · Stiff Leaved Meliosma · Meliosma simplicifolia · Meliosma sirensis · Meliosma vernicosa · Meliosma youngii
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