Bia (plant)

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Bia
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Bia alienata
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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: Bia
Klotzsch
Type species
Bia sellowiana (syn. of B. alienata)
Klotzsch

Bia is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1841. [1] [2] The entire genus is native to South America. [3] [4]

Species [3]
  1. Bia alienata Didr. - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, N Argentina
  2. Bia capivarensis Medeiros & Alves - Serra da Capivara
  3. Bia fallax (Müll.Arg.) G.L.Webster - Peru, Rondônia
  4. Bia fendleri (Müll.Arg.) G.L.Webster - Guyana, Venezuela, Amazonas State of Brazil
  5. Bia lessertiana Baill. - Fr Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, N Brazil
  6. Bia manuelii V.W. Steinm. & Ram.-Amezcua, 2013, Sierra de Coalcomán, Michoacán, Mexico [5]
formerly included [3]

moved to Zuckertia

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References

  1. ↑ Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich. 1841. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 7(1): 189-190 in Latin with notes in German
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Bia Klotzsch
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ Medeiros, D., de Senna Valle, L. & Valka Alves, J.V. (2013). Revalidation of the genera Bia and Zuckertia (Euphorbiaceae) with B. capivarensis sp. nov. from Serra da Capivara, Brazil. Nordic Journal of Botany 31: 595-602.
  5. ↑ Bia manuelii (Euphorbiaceae: Acalyphoideae), a new species from Sierra de Coalcomán, Michoacán, Mexico


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