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Oriental Plane tree

Platanus orientalis

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Proteales Algeria [I]; Iran (EC-Iran, NE-Iran: Mts., N-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan, S-Iran, W-Iran); Tunisia [I]; Azerbaijan; Uzbekistan; Tajikistan; Jordania (W-Jordania); Bulgaria; European Russia; Slovakia [I]; Sicily; China [I]; East Aegaean Isl. (incl. Rhodos); Georgia [Caucasus]; Crete; Slovenia; Italy; Greece (incl. Kiklades); South Korea [I]; Croatia; Morocco [I]; Albania; Germany [I]; Iraq (NE-Iraq, NW-Iraq); Taiwan [I]; N-India [I]; Pakistan [I]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Bosnia & Hercegovina; Afghanistan (Badakshan, Baghlan, Bamyan, Herat, Kunar / Nuristan, Nangarhar, Takhar); Cyprus (C-Mountains, S-Cyprus); Serbia & Kosovo; New Zealand [I]; Israel (Rift Valley, N-Israel); Turkmenistan; Lebanon (C-Lebanon, coastal W-Lebanon); Syria (coastal W-Syria, C-Syrian Desert); Turkey (N-Anatolia, S-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia); Northern Caucasus; ?Armenia
Platanaceae
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California Sycamore; Western sycamore; California plane tree

Platanus racemosa

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Proteales Mexico (Baja California Norte, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora); USA (California)
Platanaceae
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Arizona Sycamore

Platanus wrightii

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Proteales Mexico (Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Sonora); USA (Arizona, New Mexico)
Platanaceae
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European plane; London planetree; Hybrid plane

Platanus ×hispanica

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC 5 Europe
PLXH Proteales Portugal [c]; Slovenia [c]; Europe [c]; La Réunion [c]; Montenegro [c]; Armenia; Madeira [c]; Australia [c]; Slovakia [c]; Serbia & Kosovo [c]; Georgia [Caucasus]; Switzerland [c]; USA [c] (Massachusetts [c], New York [c], Pennsylvania [c]); Germany [c]; Tajikistan [c]; Channel Isl. [c]; Canada [c] (Ontario [c]); Bolivia [c]; Bosnia & Hercegovina [c]; China [c]; Spain [c]; Croatia [c]; Baleares [c]; Mauritius [c]; South Korea [c]; Northern Caucasus; Hungary [c]; Liechtenstein [c]; New Zealand [c]
Platanaceae Non-invasive and cultivated neophytes in Switzerland (Label Swiss Wood)
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Platea excelsa subsp. boreensis

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Metteniusales Sumatra; Java
Metteniusaceae
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Plathymenia reticulata

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Fabales Brazil; Surinam
Fabaceae
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Bacuri

Platonia insignis

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC Latin America
Malpighiales Venezuela (Amazonas); N-Brazil (Pará); São Tomé [I]; NE-Brazil (Maranhao); French Guiana; Surinam; Guyana; Colombia (Guainía, Vaupés)
Clusiaceae
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Platycarya strobilacea

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Fagales Georgia [Caucasus] [I]; China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); South Korea; Viet Nam; Northern Caucasus [I]; Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); Tajikistan [I]; North Korea
Juglandaceae
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Platycerium bifurcatum

Andere Polypodiopsida DC
Polypodiales
Polypodiaceae
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Superb Staghorn

Platycerium superbum

Andere Polypodiopsida DC
Polypodiales Australia (E-Queensland, NE-New South Wales); Hawaii [I] (Oahu [I])
Polypodiaceae
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Biota; Chinese Arbor-vitae; Eastern Arbor-vitae; Oriental Arbor-vitae

Platycladus orientalis

Softwood Pinopsida DC
Pinales Shanxi; South Korea; Henan; this situation is presumably similar in other regions. Naturalized populations occur in the Elburz Mountains of NE Iran (Riedl, 1968) and possibly elsewhere. In Kirgyzstan I found it to be the most widely planted conifer in cities and large villages; the only other trees I saw among them were some pines (Pinus densata), a pioneer species. Where Platycladus orientalis is abundant, monasteries and temples are never far away. A few copses of older and unpruned trees were seen near villages in a tributary valley of the Jinsha (Yangtse) River. Nowhere in NW Yunnan was this tree seen by me in mature natural forest; Amur; Khabarovsk; long cultivated and escaped" and "In my own travels through the Orient I never saw a spontaneous example." He also observed that "this tree is a favorite with Taoists, Buddhist and Confucian priests which accounts for its wide spread cultivation." The photograph by Handel-Mazzetti (1927) in Karsten & Schenck's series 'Vegetationsbilder' shows young trees in a narrow valley that grew there most likely spontaneously but this does not mean that they are indigenous there. In NE Yunnan, I observed that this tree is very popular with the local Buddhist rites as fresh boughs are sold to worshipers at shrines and temples. These are taken from numerous small shrubs and trees growing on otherwise virtually deforested slopes nearby; Gansu; it is also widely cultivated in the mountainous parts of India (Sahni, 1990). None of these occurrences are indigenous. The fossil record has not yielded evidence to indicate a past natural distribution wider than at present.; Russian Far East; Korea; Nei Mongol; Hebei; Shaanxi; China: S Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Nei Mongol [Inner Mongolia]; China; Russian Far East. This is possibly the most widely introduced cupressaceous conifer in Asia. In many areas inside and outside China it has 'escaped' from cultivation and established spontaneous populations. It is therefore very difficult to establish its natural range but this conifer is likely to be native only in parts of the above listed provinces and in a restricted area in Korea and adjacent Russia. Rehder (1923) mentioned Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Manchuria and Korea as the regions where it is indigenous and considered that "in other parts of China as in Formosa [Taiwan] and Japan [it is] probably planted." This is contrasted by Wilson's (1926) and Handel-Mazzetti's (1927) account of occurrences in NW Yunnan and SW Sichuan where they mention (collections of) the species from the deep valleys of the Jinsha (Yangtse), Lancang (Mekong) and Nu (Salween) Rivers. While in his account Handel-Mazzetti is quite certain of its natural occurrence there, Wilson is the more critical observer and states about the ecology of this conifer: "exact habitat unknown; North Korea; Eastern Asia
Cupressaceae
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Platymiscium hebestachyum

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC South America; Central America
PZXX Fabales Colombia
Fabaceae
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Coyote

Platymiscium parviflorum

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC South America; Central America
PZXX Fabales
Fabaceae
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Cristobal; macacaúba

Platymiscium pinnatum

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC South America; Central America
Fabales Sri Lanka; Colombia; Costa Rica; Panama; Guatemala; Mexico; Caribbean-TRP
Fabaceae
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Macacaúba; Macacauba; Macacauba Vermelha; Macacaúba Preta; Trebol; Macacauba Preta; Macacaúba Vermelha; Nambar; Caoba; Beati; Bois De Mora; Bastado; Doekaliballi; Koenatepi; Dukalaballi; Vencola; Macawood; 阔变豆类

Platymiscium spp.

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC South America; Central America
PZXX Fabales
Fabaceae
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Macawood

Platymiscium trinitatis

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC South America; Central America
PZXX Fabales Brazil; French Guiana; Venezuela; Trinidad & Tobago; Surinam; Guyana
Fabaceae
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Granadillo

Platymiscium yucatanum

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC Central America
PLYU Fabales Belize; Mexico
Fabaceae
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Pleiogynium timoriense

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Pleiospermium alatum

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Sapindales Sri Lanka; Myanmar; Andaman Isl. (Middle Andaman Isl., South Andaman Isl.); Bangladesh; India (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu)
Rutaceae
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Plerandra gabriellae

Hardwood Magnoliopsida DC
Apiales New Caledonia
Araliaceae
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