Vaterieae Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind.

Cvetković, Tijana, Hinsinger, Damien D., Thomas, Daniel C., Wieringa, Jan J., Velautham, Elango & Strijk, Joeri S., 2022, Phylogenomics and a revised tribal classification of subfamily Dipterocarpoideae (Dipterocarpaceae), TAXON 71 (1), pp. 85-102 : 93

Tribe Vaterieae Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(2): 502. 1859

– Type: Vateria L. [see note].

= Anisoptereae Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(2): 500. 1859 – Type:

Anisoptera Korth.

Emergent or canopy trees; pollen grains tricolpate and lack endexine; universal presence of intercellular resin canals; valvate base of sepals in calyx of ripe fruit (imbricate at first, after only retain some traces of imbrication); solitary vessels, scattered resin canals; pericarp thickenings; 2 strata in pollen exine; tilioid structure of exine; columellae shape-type V and U; solitary vessels with cellular divisions of canal formation oblique; 0 or 5 incrassate bases of sepals (and accrescent sepals) in fruits; fused bases of fruit sepals; rigid to soft pericarp tissue; circular to 3-symmetric fruit equatorial section; cotyledons in embryo neither covering nor piled; hypocotyl apical or median; seedling cotyledons entire; 6, 8 or 10 root-xylem poles; 3- to multilacunar cotyledonary vascular bundles; stomatal types in first leaves anomocytic or anisocytic; elongate stomata; and sunken in the epiderm (imbricate) or round and raised above the epiderm (valvate); chromosome number n = 11 (summarized in Appanah & Turnbull, 1998). From the Seychelles through India and Sri Lanka to SE Asia.

Note : Miquel (1859) seems to have taken up the name from Korthals (1839), who had described the unranked name Vaterieae for a group containing Vateria and Retinodendron Korth. Subsequently, Blume (1852) used Vaterieae , but as a subfamily name (“subord.”) that included both Vateria and Vatica . Miquel was the first to explicitly use the term at tribal level, and provided a new description. Since in this work he only had to deal with some species of Vatica ( Vateria does not occur in Indonesia), it is not immediately apparent here that it is based on Vateria instead of Vatica . Since Vaterieae is only the correct tribe name when it is based on the generic name Vateria , and it likely is a classification following previous works of Korthals and Blume, we consider Vateria the type of the tribe, and hence Vaterieae the correct spelling.

Seven genera: Anisoptera Korth. , Cotylelobium Pierre, Stemonoporus Thwaites, Upuna Symington , Vateria L., Vateriopsis F.Heim , Vatica L.