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This genus is accepted, and its native range is New World, SE. Europe to NW .Pacific.
Styrax

Native to:

Alabama, Albania, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arkansas, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cambodia, Caroline Is., China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kentucky, Korea, Kriti, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Louisiana, Malaya, Maluku, Manchuria, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Solomon Is., South Carolina, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tennessee, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Virginia, Windward Is., Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Connecticut, France, Guinea, Mauritius, New York, Pennsylvania

Styrax L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Nov 4, 2015 Deden, G. [Deden 966], Sulawesi K000618514

First published in Sp. Pl.: 444 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.

Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. 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 2021. 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

Kew Science Photographs
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