Acidoton

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Acidoton
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Male flower of Acidoton urens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Plukenetieae
Subtribe: Tragiinae
Genus: Acidoton
Sw. 1788, conserved name, not P. Browne 1756
Type species
Acidoton urens
Sw.
Synonyms [1]

Acidoton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788. [2] [3] It is native to the Greater Antilles, Central America, and tropical South America. [1] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Species [1]
  1. Acidoton haitiensis Alain - Haiti
  2. Acidoton lanceolatus Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
  3. Acidoton microphyllus Urb. - Hispaniola
  4. Acidoton nicaraguensis (Hemsl.) G.L.Webster - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
  5. Acidoton urens Sw. - Jamaica
  6. Acidoton variifolius Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola
Formerly included [1]

moved to other genera (Flueggea Jablonskia Margaritaria Meineckia Securinega )

  1. A. acidothamnus - Flueggea acidoton
  2. A. baillonianus - Margaritaria discoidea var. triplosphaera
  3. A. buxifolius - Flueggea tinctoria
  4. A. congestus - Jablonskia congesta
  5. A. durissimus - Securinega durissima
  6. A. ellipticus - Flueggea elliptica
  7. A. flexuosus - Flueggea flexuosa
  8. A. flueggeoides - Flueggea suffruticosa
  9. A. griseus - Flueggea virosa
  10. A. hilarianus - Meineckia neogranatensis subsp. hilariana
  11. A. leucopyrus - Flueggea leucopyrus
  12. A. obovatus - Flueggea virosa
  13. A. phyllanthoides - Flueggea virosa
  14. A. ramiflorus - Flueggea suffruticosa
  15. A. schuechianus - Flueggea schuechiana
  16. A. trichogynus - Meineckia trichogynis
  17. A. virosus - Flueggea virosa

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 83 in Latin
  3. ↑ Tropicos, genus Acidoton Sw.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.
  7. ↑ Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  8. ↑ González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394.
  9. ↑ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  10. ↑ Fuentes, A.F., Miranda, T., Araujo-Murakami, A., Cayola, L. Macia, M.J. & Jørgensen, P.M. (2009). Novedades florísticas de la región Madidi, La Paz, Bolivia. Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Botánica 4: 293-313.


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