Platylophus trifoliatus is a species of trees in the family Cunoniaceae. It is endemic to South Africa and the only species of the genus Platylophus. Leaves are opposite with three leaflets. Flowers are creamish or yellowish and arranged in axillary thyrsoid inflorescences. Fruits are indehiscent.[1][2] Its closest relative is the Tasmanian endemic Anodopetalum.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Cunoniaceae |
| Genus: | Platylophus D. Don |
| Species: | P. trifoliatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Platylophus trifoliatus (L.f.) D.Don
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References
edit- ^ Goldblatt, P., & Manning, J. (2000). Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. National Botanical Institute. p. 420
- ^ Bradford, J.C., Hopkins, H.C.F., Barnes, R.W. (2004). Cunoniaceae. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume VI, Flowering plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales. Springer, Heidelberg. p 91-111.
- ^ Bradford, J.C. & Barnes, R.W. (2001). Phylogenetics and classification of Cunoniaceae (Oxalidales) using chloroplast DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Botany 26 (2): 354‑85.