Caperonia

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False croton
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Caperonia palustris
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Kingdom: Plantae
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]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Plant multicellular eukaryote of the kingdom Plantae

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants. However, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes. By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae, a group that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and the green algae, but excludes the red and brown algae.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

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

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<i>Ditaxis</i> genus of plants

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  2. Maprounea amazonica - Colombia, Venezuela, N Brazil
  3. Maprounea brasiliensis - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
  4. Maprounea guianensis - Trinidad, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay
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<i>Oxypetalum</i> genus of plants

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<i>Syngonanthus</i> genus of plants

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). 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


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