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Terminalia tricristata (Terminalia tricristata)

Description

Terminalia tricristata is a two-hearted plant species first described by H. Perr., Now renamed René Paul Raymond Capuron . Terminalia tricristata is included in the genus Terminalia and the Combretaceae family. Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Tracheophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Myrtales

            • Family: Combretaceae

              • Genus: Terminalia