Neoboutonia
Appearance
Neoboutonia | |
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Neoboutonia mannii specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
Subfamily: | Crotonoideae |
Tribe: | Aleuritideae |
Subtribe: | Neoboutoniinae |
Genus: | Neoboutonia Airy Shaw |
Type species | |
Neoboutonia africana (syn of N. melleri)[1][2] |
Neoboutonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864.[3][2] It is the only genus in subtribe Neoboutoniinae, and native to tropical Africa.[1][4][5][6][7] It is dioecious.[8]
- Species[1]
- Neoboutonia macrocalyx Pax - Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Neoboutonia mannii Benth. & Hook.f. - tropical Africa from Liberia to Mozambique
- Neoboutonia melleri (Müll.Arg.) Prain - tropical Africa from Nigeria to Mozambique
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ a b "Tropicos, Neoboutonia Müll. Arg". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
- ^ Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1864. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 2: 336
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
- ^ Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
- ^ Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
- ^ Van Welzen, Peter C.; Stuppy, Wolfgang (1999). "Phylogenetic Considerations of Euphorbiaceae Tribe Aleuritideae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 86 (4): 894–903. doi:10.2307/2666174. JSTOR 2666174.