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Brachychiton fitzgeraldianus
Specimen E00790653 (image CC-0 from Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Brachychiton
Species:	B. fitzgeraldianus
Binomial name
Brachychiton fitzgeraldianus Guymer

Brachychiton fitzgeraldianus is a tree of the genus Brachychiton found in northwestern Australia. It was described in 1988.

Notes

1. The genus Brachychiton was traditionally placed in the family Sterculiaceae, but that family, along with Bombacaceae and Tiliaceae, has been found to be polyphyletic and is now sunk into a more broadly-defined Malvaceae

References

1. Stevens, Peter F. (29 January 2015). "Angiosperm Phylogeny Website". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
2. Guymer, Gordon Paul (1988). "A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae)". Australian Systematic Botany. 1 (3): 199–323. doi:10.1071/SB9880199.

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