# Toronia

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{{short description|Genus of tree in the family Proteaceae}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2024}}

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|image = Toronia toru 2.JPG
|image_caption = ''Toronia toru''
|display_parents = 3
|genus = Toronia
|parent_authority = [L.A.S.Johnson](/source/L.A.S.Johnson) & [B.G.Briggs](/source/B.G.Briggs)
|species = toru
|authority = (A. Cunn.) [L.A.S.Johnson](/source/L.A.S.Johnson) & [B.G.Briggs](/source/B.G.Briggs)
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[[File:Illustrations of the New Zealand flora P170 (BHL12443756).jpg|thumb|Illustration by [Matilda Smith](/source/Matilda_Smith).]] 
'''''Toronia''''' is a genus of tree in the family [Proteaceae](/source/Proteaceae)  that contains a single species, '''''Toronia toru''''', which is [endemic](/source/Endemism) to New Zealand. The genus is closely related to the large genus ''[Persoonia](/source/Persoonia)'', and in fact this species was long regarded as one until placed in its own new genus by [Lawrie Johnson](/source/Lawrence_Alexander_Sidney_Johnson) and [Barbara G. Briggs](/source/Barbara_G._Briggs)  in their 1975 monograph "[On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family](/source/On_the_Proteaceae%3A_the_evolution_and_classification_of_a_southern_family)".<ref name="Lawrence 1975">{{cite journal|author = [L. A. S. Johnson](/source/Lawrence_Alexander_Sidney_Johnson) and [Briggs, B. G.](/source/Barbara_G._Briggs) | year = 1975 | title = On the Proteaceae: the evolution and classification of a southern family | journal = Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany | volume = 70 | pages = 83–182 | doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1975.tb01644.x|issue = 2}}</ref>

However, phylogenetic studies indicate that ''Toronia'' is nested in the larger genus ''[Persoonia](/source/Persoonia)'', where it was once included.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Holmes |first=Gareth D. |last2=Weston |first2=Peter H. |last3=Murphy |first3=Daniel J. |last4=Connelly |first4=Carolyn |last5=Cantrill |first5=David J. |date=2018-05-07 |title=The genealogy of geebungs: phylogenetic analysis of Persoonia (Proteaceae) and related genera in subfamily Persoonioideae |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324986968_The_genealogy_of_geebungs_phylogenetic_analysis_of_Persoonia_Proteaceae_and_related_genera_in_subfamily_Persoonioideae |journal=Australian Systematic Botany |language=en |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=166–189 |doi=10.1071/SB16052 |issn=1030-1887 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref>

''Toronia toru'' is an [evergreen](/source/evergreen) [tree](/source/tree)  found in the northern half of the [North Island](/source/North_Island) and is one of only two members of the [protea](/source/protea) family occurring in New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfgphoto.com/img2590.htm|title=Country, Farm & Garden - Agricultural & Horticultural Stock Photo Specialists|access-date=2011-07-12}}</ref>

''Toronia toru'' grows to 7 – 11 metres and has long slender green leaves, small yellow flowers, and red to dark purple-blue fleshy fruits.

==References==
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Category:Persoonioideae
Category:Trees of New Zealand
Category:Flora of the North Island
Category:Plants described in 1975
Category:Monotypic Proteaceae genera
Category:Endemic flora of New Zealand
Category:Taxa named by Barbara G. Briggs
Category:Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson

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