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Ptelea
Ptelea trifoliata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Subfamily:	Zanthoxyloideae
Genus:	Ptelea L.
Synonyms
Taravalia Greene

Ptelea is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. The name, of Greek derivation, is the classical name of the elm tree. Carl Linnaeus used that word for this genus because of the resemblance of its fruit to that of the elm. Members of the genus are commonly known as hoptrees.

Species

• Ptelea aptera Parry — Baja Californian ptelea (wingless ptelea)
• Ptelea crenulata Greene — California hoptree
• Ptelea trifoliata L. — common hoptree
  • Ptelea trifoliata subsp. angustifolia (Benth.) V.L.Bailey
  • Ptelea trifoliata subsp. coahuilensis (Greene) V.L.Bailey
  • Ptelea trifoliata f. fastigiata (Bean) Rehder
  • Ptelea trifoliata subsp. pallida (Greene) V.L.Bailey
  • Ptelea trifoliata subsp. polyadenia (Greene) V.L.Bailey
  • Ptelea trifoliata f. pubescens (Pursh) Voss
  • Ptelea trifoliata subsp. trifoliata

Formerly placed here

• Cliftonia monophylla (Lam.) Britton ex Sarg. (as P. monophylla Lam.)
• Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia (L.f.) J.G.West (as P. viscosa L.)

References

1. "genus Ptelea". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) online database. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
2. Keeler, Harriet L. (1900). Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 32–35.
3. ^ "Ptelea". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2012-05-03.
4. ^ "GRIN Species Records of Ptelea". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2012-05-03.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Ptelea at Wikimedia Commons
• [REDACTED] Data related to Ptelea at Wikispecies
• "Ptelea L." Atlas of Living Australia.

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