Torreya Arnott. Torreya, Stinking Cedar.
The genus consists of 7 species, trees, of temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere – 1 in FL and adjacent GA, 1 in CA, 1 in Japan, and 4 in c. and s. China and adjacent Burma (Price 1990a; Zhou, Harris, & Xiang 2022). Zhou, Harris, & Xiang (2022) studied the phylogeography of Torreya; our southeastern North American species is sister to Californian Torreya californica, which together form a clade sister to a clade of the 5 Asian species.
Ref: Hils (1993) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (1993b); Page In Kramer & Green (1990); Price (1990a); Zhou, Harris, & Xiang (2022). Show full citations.
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