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• †Comptonia anderssonii
• †Comptonia columbiana
• †Comptonia difformis
• †Comptonia naumannii
• †Comptonia tymensis

}}File:Comptonia columbiana SRIC SR 05-09-01 img1.jpg|thumb|upright|Comptonia columbiana, 49.5 mya, Klondike Mountain FormationKlondike Mountain FormationComptonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myricaceae, native to parts of eastern North America. It has one extant (living) species, Comptonia peregrina, and a number of extinct species.

Taxonomy

The living species was first described, as Liquidambar peregrina, by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, in the second volume of Species Plantarum. Further on in the same volume, he described Myrica aspleniifolia as a different species (with the epithet spelt asplenifolia). In 1763, he changed his mind concerning Myrica aspleniifolia, and it became Liquidambar aspleniifolia, and so in the same genus as Liquidambar peregrina. In 1789, Charles Louis L'Héritier placed Linnaeus's original Myrica aspleniifolia in his new genus Comptonia.WEB, Comptonia aspleniifolia (L.) L'Hér., International Plant Names Index, The International Plant Names Index,weblink 2019-07-19, The genus is named in honor of Rev. Henry Compton (1632-1713), bishop of Oxford. In 1894, John M. Coulter transferred Linnaeus's Liquidambar peregrina to Comptonia, and treated Linnaeus's Myrica aspleniifolia as a synonym.BOOK, Coulter, John M., 1894, Myricaceae, Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, 5, 127–128,weblink 2019-07-19, Comptonia peregrina is now the only extant (living) species in the genus.

References

{{Citation |last1=Xiao-Qing |first1=Liang |last2=Wilde |first2=Volker |last3=Ferguson |first3=David K. |last4=Kvaček |first4=Zlatko |last5=Ablaev |first5=Albert G. |last6=Wang |first6=Yu-Fei |last7=Li |first7=Cheng-Sen |date=2010 |title=Comptonia naumannii (Myricaceae) from the early Miocene of Weichang, China, and the palaeobiogeographical implication of the genus |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=163 |issue=1–2 |pages=52–63 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.09.004 |bibcode=2010RPaPa.163...52L |name-list-style=amp }}}}{{Taxonbar|from1=Q16879998}}{{Fagales-stub}}