Caperonia

False croton
Caperonia palustris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subtribe:	Ditaxinae
Genus:	Caperonia A.St.-Hil.
Synonyms [1]
Acanthopyxis Miq. ex Lanj. not validly published Androphoranthus H.Karst. Cavanilla Vell. 1829, illegitimate homonym, not J.F. Gmel. 1792 (Malvaceae) nor Thunb. 1792 (Icacinaceae) nor Salisb. 1792 (Theaceae) [2] Lepidococea Turcz. Meterana Raf.

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]

1. Caperonia aculeolata - S Brazil
2. Caperonia altissima - Paraguay
3. Caperonia angustissima - Guyana
4. Caperonia bahiensis - E Brazil, Paraguay
5. Caperonia buettneriacea - S Brazil
6. Caperonia capiibariensis - Paraguay
7. Caperonia castaneifolia - widespread from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay + NE Argentina; naturalized in Florida, Alabama
8. Caperonia castrobarrosiana - Maranhão
9. Caperonia chiltepecensis - Veracruz, Oaxaca
10. Caperonia corchoroides - Guyana, Suriname
11. Caperonia cordata - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
12. Caperonia cubana - Cuba
13. Caperonia fistulosa - Africa from Mali to Somalia to Namibia
14. Caperonia gardneri - Brazil
15. Caperonia glabrata - Paraguay, Formosa
16. Caperonia heteropetala - S Brazil
17. Caperonia langsdorffii - São Paulo, Mato Grosso
18. Caperonia latifolia W + C Africa from Togo to Tanzania
19. Caperonia latior - Paraguay
20. Caperonia linearifolia - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Uruguay
21. Caperonia lutea - Guyana
22. Caperonia multicostata - E Brazil
23. Caperonia neglecta - Veracruz, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia
24. Caperonia palustris - widespread from SE + SC United States to Paraguay + N Argentina
25. Caperonia paraguayensis - Paraguay
26. Caperonia regnellii - Minas Gerais
27. Caperonia rutenbergii - Madagascar
28. Caperonia serrata - tropical Africa
29. Caperonia similis - Amazonas in NW Brazil
30. Caperonia stenophylla - Minas Gerais, 3 Guianas
31. Caperonia stuhlmannii - Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal
32. Caperonia subrotunda - Somalia
33. Caperonia vellozoana - Rio de Janeiro
34. Caperonia zaponzeta - Peru

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Tropicos, search for genus Cavanilla
3. Saint-Hilaire, Auguste François César Prouvençal de. 1825. Histoire des plantes les plus remarquables du Bresil ... 3/4: 244–247. 1825
4. Tropicos
5. 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.
6. Burger, W.C. & M.J. Huft. 1995. Family 113. Euphorbiaceae. En: W. C. Burger (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Botany, n.s. 36: 1–169.
7. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
8. 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.
9. Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144
10. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps, genus Caperonia