Caperonia
| False croton | |
|---|---|
| |
| Caperonia palustris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subtribe: | Ditaxinae |
| Genus: | Caperonia A.St.-Hil. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Caperonia (false croton) is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825.[3][4] The genus is native to tropical and subtropical America and Africa.[1][5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Species[1]
- Caperonia aculeolata - S Brazil
- Caperonia altissima - Paraguay
- Caperonia angustissima - Guyana
- Caperonia bahiensis - E Brazil, Paraguay
- Caperonia buettneriacea - S Brazil
- Caperonia capiibariensis - Paraguay
- Caperonia castaneifolia - widespread from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay + NE Argentina; naturalized in Florida, Alabama
- Caperonia castrobarrosiana - Maranhão
- Caperonia chiltepecensis - Veracruz, Oaxaca
- Caperonia corchoroides - Guyana, Suriname
- Caperonia cordata - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
- Caperonia cubana - Cuba
- Caperonia fistulosa - Africa from Mali to Somalia to Namibia
- Caperonia gardneri - Brazil
- Caperonia glabrata - Paraguay, Formosa
- Caperonia heteropetala - S Brazil
- Caperonia langsdorffii - São Paulo, Mato Grosso
- Caperonia latifolia W + C Africa from Togo to Tanzania
- Caperonia latior - Paraguay
- Caperonia linearifolia - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Uruguay
- Caperonia lutea - Guyana
- Caperonia multicostata - E Brazil
- Caperonia neglecta - Veracruz, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia
- Caperonia palustris - widespread from SE + SC United States to Paraguay + N Argentina
- Caperonia paraguayensis - Paraguay
- Caperonia regnellii - Minas Gerais
- Caperonia rutenbergii - Madagascar
- Caperonia serrata - tropical Africa
- Caperonia similis - Amazonas in NW Brazil
- Caperonia stenophylla - Minas Gerais, 3 Guianas
- Caperonia stuhlmannii - Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal
- Caperonia subrotunda - Somalia
- Caperonia vellozoana - Rio de Janeiro
- Caperonia zaponzeta - Peru
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Tropicos, search for genus Cavanilla
- ^ Saint-Hilaire, Auguste François César Prouvençal de. 1825. Histoire des plantes les plus remarquables du Bresil ... 3/4: 244–247. 1825
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Burger, W.C. & M.J. Huft. 1995. Family 113. Euphorbiaceae. En: W. C. Burger (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Botany, n.s. 36: 1–169.
- ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - ^ Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
- ^ Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, genus Caperonia
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