Cephalocroton

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Cephalocroton
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Epiprineae
Subtribe: Epiprininae
Genus:Cephalocroton
Hochst.
Type species
Cephalocroton cordofanus

Cephalocroton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1841. [1] [2] It is native to central, eastern, and southern Africa from Nigeria and Ethiopia south to KwaZulu-Natal. [3] [4]

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".

Use

The dead wood of some species can be used as a fumigant.

Species [3]
  1. Cephalocroton cordofanus Hochst. - Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
  2. Cephalocroton incanus M.G.Gilbert - Nigeria, Ethiopia
  3. Cephalocroton mollis Klotzsch - Tanzania, Mozambuque, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
  4. Cephalocroton polygynus Pax & K.Hoffm. - Somalia
formerly included

moved to other genera (Adenochlaena Cephalocrotonopsis Cladogynos Epiprinus Sumbaviopsis )

<i>Adenochlaena</i> genus of plants

Adenochlaena is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to certain islands in the Indian Ocean.

  1. Adenochlaena leucocephalaBaill. - Madagascar, Comoros
  2. Adenochlaena zeylanica(Baill.) Thwaites - Sri Lanka

Cephalocrotonopsis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910. It contains only one known species, Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus, endemic to the Socotra Islands in the Indian Ocean, part of the Republic of Yemen.

Cladogynos is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1841. It contains only one known species, Cladogynos orientalis, native to Southeast Asia and southern China.

  1. C. albicans - Sumbaviopsis albicans
  2. C. albicans var. virens - Cladogynos orientalis
  3. C. cordifolius - Adenochlaena leucocephala
  4. C. discolor - Cladogynos orientalis
  5. C. indicus - Epiprinus mallotiformis
  6. C. leucocephalus - Adenochlaena leucocephala
  7. C. orientalis - Cladogynos orientalis
  8. C. socotranus - Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus
  9. C. zeylanicus - Adenochlaena zeylanica

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  13. Tetradenia isaloensisPhillipson - Madagascar
  14. Tetradenia kaokoensisvan Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk - Namibia
  15. Tetradenia multiflora(Benth.) Phillipson - Ethiopia
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  17. Tetradenia riparia(Hochst.) Codd - southern Africa from Angola + Malawi to Swaziland
  18. Tetradenia tanganyikaePhillipson - Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia
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References

  1. ↑ Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1841. Flora oder Botanische Zeitung :welche Recensionen, Abhandlungen, Aufsätze, Neuigkeiten und Nachrichten, die Botanik betreffend, enthält 24: 370 in Latin
  2. ↑ Tropicos, genus Cephalocroton
  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.


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