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''Neorites'' is a genus of a sole described species of tall trees, constituting part of the plant family Proteaceae. The species ''Neorites kevedianus'' grows naturally only (endemic) in the wet tropics rainforests of north eastern Queensland, Australia. The trees have the common names of the fishtail oak or fishtail silky oak. ==Taxonomy and naming== Queensland botanist Lindsay Smith named the species in 1969, from a collection from forestry land near Kuranda in 1955 by Queensland forestry officers Kevin J. White and H. Edgar Volck. Smith coined the species names from the first names of the finders. Peter H. Weston and Nigel Barker refined the classification of the Proteaceae in 2006, incorporating molecular data. Here, ''Neorites'' emerged as closely related to the genera ''Orites'' and ''Roupala''. They thus placed the three genera in the subtribe ''Roupalinae'', conceding that the next closest relatives of this group is unclear. This group lies within the subfamily Grevilleoideae. Clock dating with molecular and fossil data indicated ancestors of ''Neorites'' and the South American genus ''Roupala'' may have diverged in the mid-Oligocene around 30 million years ago, and that this lineage in turn separated from the ancestors of ''Orites'' in the late Eocene around 36 million years ago. Common names for ''Neorites kevedianus'' include fishtail silky, fishtail oak, or fishtail silky oak.〔 A compound-leaved fossil species has been recovered from the middle Eocene Golden Grove site in Adelaide that closely resembles ''Neorites kevedianus''. Although abundant at this site, it has not been recovered elsewhere. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neorites」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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