Benthamidia Spach. Big-bracted Dogwood.

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A genus of about 7-17 species, trees, of Asia, e. North America, w. North America, and montane Mexico. See Cornaceae for discussion of generic treatment. We here circumscribe Benthamidia broadly to include the syncarpous, big-bracted dogwoods of e. Asia, sometimes separated as genus Dendrobenthamia Hutchinson. The larger number of species (17) was suggested by analyses of Du, Cheng, & Xiang (2023), though they declined to recognize these, seemingly pointing to a brave, new, rank-free PhyloCode world.

Ref: Du, Cheng, & Xiang (2023); Eyde (1987); Hara (1948); Murrell & Poindexter (2016) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Show full citations.

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