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  1. Family: Platanaceae T.Lestib.

    1. Platanus L.

        2. This genus is accepted, and is native to Asia-Tropical, Europe, Guatemala, Northern America and Asia-Temperate..

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Alabama, Albania, Arizona, Arkansas, Bulgaria, California, Connecticut, Cyprus, Delaware, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., Florida, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kansas, Kentucky, Kriti, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Sicilia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Yugoslavia

    Introduced into:

    Afghanistan, Algeria, Baleares, Belgium, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Mauritius, Morocco, Réunion, Spain, Tadzhikistan, Turkey-in-Europe, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya

    Accepted Species

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    Other Data

    Platanus L. appears in other Kew resources:

    Bibliography

    First published in Sp. Pl.: 999 (1753)

    Accepted by

    • Grimm, G.W. & Denk, T. (2010). The reticulate origin of modern plane trees (Platanus, Platanaceae): A nuclear marker puzzle Taxon 59: 134-147.

    Sources

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0