Brownlowioideae is a subfamily of the botanical family Malvaceae. It includes ten genera distributed in the tropical Americas, Africa, Asia, New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific. The genera in this subfamily used to be a part of the paraphyletic Tiliaceae until taxonomic revisions in part by the APG II system.
Genera Ten genera are accepted. Berrya – 6 sp., tropical Asia, Australia, and southwest Pacific Brownlowia – 29 sp., tropical Asia and New Guinea Carpodiptera – 4 sp., tropical Africa and tropical Americas Christiana – 6 sp., tropical Africa and tropical Americas Diplodiscus – 11 sp., Malesia Indagator – 1 sp., Queensland Jarandersonia – 8 sp., Borneo Pentace – 30 sp., Indochina and Malesia Pityranthe (synonym Hainania ) – 2 sp., Sri Lanka and southern China Somnuekia – 1 sp., Thailand
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