Cavacoa

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Cavacoa
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Cavacoa aurea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Aleuritideae
Subtribe: Grosserinae
Genus: Cavacoa
J.Léonard

Cavacoa is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1955. [1] [2] All the species are native to sub-Saharan Africa. [3] [4] It is dioecious. [5]

Species [3]
  1. Cavacoa aurea (Cavaco) J.Léonard - Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal
  2. Cavacoa baldwinii (Keay & Cavaco) J.Léonard - Sierra Leone, Liberia
  3. Cavacoa quintasii (Pax & K.Hoffm.) J.Léonard - Annobón, São Tomé, Zaïre

References

  1. ↑ Léonard, Jean Joseph Gustave. 1955. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 25: 320
  2. ↑ 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
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  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. ↑ 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.
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