Ditaxis
| Ditaxis | |
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| Ditaxis argothamnoides | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Acalyphoideae |
| Tribe: | Chrozophoreae |
| Subtribe: | Ditaxinae |
| Genus: | Ditaxis Vahl ex A.Juss. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Ditaxis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824.[2][3] Its name comes from Greek dis ("two") and taxis ("rank"), referring to the stamens which are in two whorls. The genus is widespread across much of the Western Hemisphere from the southern United States to Uruguay.[1][4][5][6][7]
- Species[1]
- Ditaxis acaulis - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
- Ditaxis adenophora - Arizona, Sonora, S California
- Ditaxis aphoroides - S Texas
- Ditaxis argothamnoides - Florida, Aruba, Curaçao, Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela
- Ditaxis arlynniana - Coahuila
- Ditaxis brandegeei - Arizona, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora
- Ditaxis breviramea - Bolivia, Paraguay, NW Argentina
- Ditaxis calycina - Leeward Islands
- Ditaxis catamarcensis - N Argentina
- Ditaxis clariana - SE California, SW Arizona, Baja California
- Ditaxis cuneifolia - Espírito Santo
- Ditaxis cyanophylla - Arizona, New Mexico
- Ditaxis depressa - Puebla
- Ditaxis desertorum - Bahia
- Ditaxis dioica - Peru
- Ditaxis erubescens - Venezuela incl islands in Caribbean
- Ditaxis fasciculata - Cuba, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles, NE Brazil
- Ditaxis gardneri - Ceará
- Ditaxis guatemalensis - Mexico, Central America
- Ditaxis haitiensis - Hispaniola
- Ditaxis heterantha - Mexico
- Ditaxis humilis - from Kansas + Colorado south to Durango
- Ditaxis illimaniensis - Bolivia
- Ditaxis jablonszkyana - NW Argentina
- Ditaxis katharinae - Peru
- Ditaxis lanceolata - California, Arizona, Baja California
- Ditaxis macrantha - Ecuador
- Ditaxis macrobotrys - Panama
- Ditaxis malmeana - Mato Grosso
- Ditaxis malpighiacea - Piauí, Pernambuco
- Ditaxis malpighipila - Argentina from Mendoza to Rio Negro
- Ditaxis manzanilloana - Oaxaca, Colima
- Ditaxis mercurialina - Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Mexico
- Ditaxis montevidensis - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
- Ditaxis pilosissima - Texas
- Ditaxis polygama - West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela
- Ditaxis pringlei - Oaxaca, Morelos, Jalisco
- Ditaxis purpurascens - Mato Grosso
- Ditaxis rhizantha - Uruguay
- Ditaxis rosularis - NW Argentina, Paraguay
- Ditaxis rubricaulis - Venezuela incl islands in Caribbean
- Ditaxis salina - Paraguay, Formosa
- Ditaxis sellowiana - S Brazil
- Ditaxis serrata - Mexico, Guatemala, SW United States
- Ditaxis simoniana - E + SE Brazil
- Ditaxis simulans - Texas, Coahuila
- formerly included[1]
moved to other genera (Adelia Argythamnia Caperonia Chiropetalum Philyra)
- D. argentea - Argythamnia argentea
- D. brasiliensis - Philyra brasiliensis
- D. castaneifolia - Caperonia castaneifolia
- D. chiropetala - Chiropetalum berteroanum
- D. cordata - Caperonia cordata
- D. haemiolandra - Adelia ricinella
- D. linearifolia - Caperonia linearifolia
- D. polymorpha - Caperonia heteropetala
- D. polymorpha var. brevifolia - Caperonia aculeolata
- D. polymorpha var. buttnerioides - Caperonia heteropetala
- D. polymorpha var. longifolia - Caperonia heteropetala
- D. tinctoria - Argythamnia tinctoria
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de. 1824. De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 27, pl. 7, f. 24
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Molina Rosito, A. 1975. Enumeración de las plantas de Honduras. Ceiba 19(1): 1–118.
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