Oncotheca is a genus of tree endemic to New Caledonia. There are two species,Morat, P., and J. M. Veillon. (1988). Oncothecaceae. In Flore de La Nouvelle-Calédonie et Dépendances, edited by P. Morat and H. S. MacKee, 15:90–98. Paris: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle.Morat, P., T. Jaffré, F. Tronchet, J. Munzinger, Y. Pillon, J. M. Veillon, and M. Chalopin (2012). The taxonomic reference base Florical and characteristics of the native vascular flora of New Caledonia. Adansonia 34 (2): 179–221. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/a2012n2a1 Oncotheca balansae and Oncotheca humboldtiana.
Oncotheca is the sole genus of the Oncothecaceae, which is one of three families of flowering plants endemic to New Caledonia. Its placement has been enigmatic for a long time, but a recent phylogenetic analysisStull, G. W., R. Duno de Stefano, D. E. Soltis, and P. S. Soltis. (2015). Resolving Basal Lamiid Phylogeny and the Circumscription of Icacinaceae with a Plastome-Scale Data Set.” American Journal of Botany 102 (11): 1794–1813. doi:10.3732/ajb.1500298. based on 73 plastid genes found it to be sister to Icacinaceae. It is now placed in the order Icacinales.
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