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|accepted_name=Firmiana
|accepted_authority=Marsili
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Saggi Sci. Lett. Accad. Padova
|place=1: 115. 1786
|year=1786
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae;Firmiana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Firmiana]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Carlo Giuseppe, Conte di Firmian, 1717 – 1782 Austrian statesman and Governor-General of Lombardy
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 189, 191
|treatment_page=page 190
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>[shrubs], deciduous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules caducous; blade usually lobed, base often cordate, palmately 5–7-veined. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual or rarely bisexual (plants monoecious or polygamous); sepals 5, ± connate into tube. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: stamens [10–]15; anthers shortly stipitate or sessile, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally; pistillode present. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: ovary 5-locular, pyriform [ovoid or globose], base ringed with [10–]15 indehiscent anthers; ovules 2–6 per locule; styles 5, basally connate; stigmas 5. <b>Follicles</b> stipitate, chartaceous, foliaceous, dehiscent long before maturity and exposing seeds adhering to margins. <b>Seeds</b> globose, smooth, wrinkled when dry, glabrous; endosperm abundant; embryo straight. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>A. J. G. H. Kostermans (1954, 1956, 1957) used follicle dehiscence to separate <i>Firmiana</i> from the closely related Hildegardia; follicles are dehiscent in the former and indehiscent in the latter. However, molecular evidence suggests that fruit dehiscence is not a defining generic character and it now appears that the species of <i>Firmiana</i> and Hildegardia with deeply lobed calyces form a clade (P. Wilkie et al. 2006). This would tend to support the practice in some Asian floras of recognizing the species of <i>Firmiana</i> with infundibuliform calyces as Erythropsis Lindley ex Schott & Endlicher. Although generic boundaries are poorly defined, and with better molecular sampling probably will change, <i>Firmiana</i> is the oldest generic name available for these three related taxa and likely will continue to be applied to the species found in our flora.</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=kostermans1956a
|text=Kostermans, A. J. G. H. 1956. The genus Firmiana Marsili (Stercul.). Pengum. Balai Besar Penjel. Kehut. Indonesia 54: 3–33.
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|id=kostermans1957a
|text=Kostermans, A. J. G. H. 1957. The genus Firmiana Marsili (Sterculiaceae). Reinwardtia 4: 281–310.
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|id=kostermans1989a
|text=Kostermans, A. J. G. H. 1989. Notes on Firmiana Marsili (Sterculiaceae). Blumea 34: 117–118.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=ridley1934a
|text=Ridley, H. N. 1934. Firmiana and Erythropsis. Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1934: 214–217.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Firmiana
|author=Laurence J. Dorr
|authority=Marsili
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Asia;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=kostermans1956a;kostermans1957a;kostermans1989a;ridley1934a
|publication title=Saggi Sci. Lett. Accad. Padova
|publication year=1786
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_341.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae
|genus=Firmiana
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