Codiaeum

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Codiaeum
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Codiaeum variegatum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Codiaeae
Genus: Codiaeum
A.Juss.
Synonyms [1]

Codiaeum is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. [2] [3] It is native to insular Southeast Asia, northern Australia [4] and Papuasia. [1] [5]

They are shrubs with leathery leaves and often confused with the genus Croton . Some species, especially Codiaeum variegatum , are cultivated as houseplants. [6]

Species [1]
  1. Codiaeum affine - Banggi
  2. Codiaeum bractiferum - Lesser Sundas, Maluku
  3. Codiaeum ciliatum - Philippines
  4. Codiaeum finisterrae - NE New Guinea
  5. Codiaeum hirsutum - Philippines
  6. Codiaeum ludovicianum - Louisiade
  7. Codiaeum luzonicum - Philippines
  8. Codiaeum macgregorii - Philippines
  9. Codiaeum megalanthum - Philippines
  10. Codiaeum membranaceum - Cape York Pen
  11. Codiaeum oligogynum - New Caledonia
  12. Codiaeum palawanense - Palawan
  13. Codiaeum peltatum - New Caledonia incl Loyalty
  14. Codiaeum stellingianum - Kai Is, New Guinea
  15. Codiaeum tenerifolium - New Guinea
  16. Codiaeum trichocalyx - Luzon
  17. Codiaeum variegatum - Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea, Bismarck, Solomon, Fiji
Formerly included [1]

moved to other genera: Austrobuxus Baloghia Blachia Fontainea Sphyranthera Trigonostemon

  1. C. alternifolium - Baloghia alternifolia
  2. C. andamanicum - Blachia andamanica
  3. C. aurantiacum - Trigonostemon aurantiacus
  4. C. balansae - Baloghia balansae
  5. C. brongniartii - Baloghia brongniartii
  6. C. bureavii - Baloghia bureavii
  7. C. carunculatum - Austrobuxus carunculatus
  8. C. deplanchei - Baloghia deplanchei
  9. C. drimiflorum - Baloghia drimiflora
  10. C. inophyllum - Baloghia inophylla
  11. C. lucidum - Baloghia inophylla
  12. C. lutescens - Sphyranthera lutescens
  13. C. montanum - Baloghia montana
  14. C. pancheri - Fontainea pancheri
  15. C. pentzii - Blachia pentzii
  16. C. umbellatum - Blachia umbellata

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<i>Croton</i> (plant) Genus of flowering plants

Croton is an extensive plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also refers to Codiaeum variegatum. The generic name comes from the Greek κρότος, which means "tick" and refers to the shape of the seeds of certain species.

<i>Balanops</i> Genus of flowering plants

Balanops is a group of flowering plants described as a genus in 1871. The nine species are trees or shrubs, found in New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, and northern Queensland. They are dioecious, with separate male and female plants.

<i>Claoxylon</i> Genus of flowering plants

Claoxylon is a flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, comprising dioecious subshrubs to small trees. It was first described as a genus in 1824. The genus is distributed in paleotropical areas: Madagascar through South and Southeast Asia, Malesia to Melanesia, Hawaiʻi, and Australia. Half of the species are in Malesia. According to a molecular phylogenetic study by Wurdack, Hoffmann & Chase (2005), Claoxylon is sister to Erythrococca, and together they form the top of a Hennigian comb-like phylogeny.

<i>Cleidion</i> Genus of flowering plants

Cleidion is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1826. It is found in tropical and subtropical regions in Asia, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Wetria is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to Australia, New Guinea and Southeast Asia.

  1. Wetria australiensisP.I.Forst. - Papua New Guinea, Queensland
  2. Wetria insignis(Steud.) Airy Shaw - Thailand, Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Philippines
<i>Chrozophora</i> Genus of flowering plants

Chrozophora is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It comprises monoecious herbs or undershrubs. The genus is widespread across Europe, Africa, and Asia.

<i>Austrobuxus</i> Genus of flowering plants

Austrobuxus is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae first described as a genus in 1861. It is native to Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and Australia. The region with the highest diversity is New Caledonia.

<i>Dimorphocalyx</i> Genus of flowering plants

Dimorphocalyx is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1861. It is native to Southeast Asia, Hainan, India, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, and Queensland.

<i>Fontainea</i> Genus of flowering plants

Fontainea is a genus constituting part of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. The nine currently known species grow naturally in Queensland (Qld) and New South Wales (NSW) Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea. Some species are commonly named blushwood.

<i>Homalanthus</i> Genus of flowering plants

Homalanthus is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It is the only genus in subtribe Carumbiinae. The genus is native to tropical Asia, Australia, and various islands in the Pacific.

<i>Petalostigma</i> Genus of flowering plants

Petalostigma is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae and the monogeneric subtribe Petalostigmatinae, first defined by von Mueller in 1857. It is native to New Guinea and Australia. They are evergreen, dioecious shrubs or trees.

<i>Baloghia</i> Genus of flowering plants

Baloghia is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1833. It is native to Australia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. Cocconerion is a close relative.

Cocconerion is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1873. The entire genus is endemic to New Caledonia and is related to Baloghia.

  1. Cocconerion balansaeBaill. - SE New Caledonia
  2. Cocconerion minusBaill. - New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands
<i>Bridelia</i> Genus of flowering plants

Bridelia is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806. It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

<i>Niemeyera</i> Genus of flowering plants

Niemeyera is a genus of plants in the family Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1870. The entire genus is endemic to Australia. Its closest relative is Pycnandra from New Caledonia.

  1. Niemeyera chartacea(F.M.Bailey) C.T.White - Queensland
  2. Niemeyera prunifera(F.Muell.) F.Muell. - Queensland
  3. Niemeyera whitei(Aubrév.) Jessup - Queensland, New South Wales
<i>Codiaeum variegatum</i> Species of plant

Codiaeum variegatum is a species of Codiaeum, a genus of flowering plants, in the Euphorbiaceae. Initially described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is native to Australasia and Oceania, from Malaysia and Indonesia in the north through northeastern Australia, as well as many Southeast Asian and South Pacific islands, growing in open forests and scrub.

<i>Basselinia</i> Genus of palms

Basselinia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. The entire genus is endemic to the Island of New Caledonia in the Pacific. In some molecular phylogenetic analyses, Hedyscepe from Lord Howe Island is nested in Basselinia.

<i>Baloghia inophylla</i> Species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae

Baloghia inophylla, commonly known as the scrub bloodwood, brush bloodwood or ivory birch, is a plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to rainforests of eastern Australia and New Caledonia.

Pichonia is a group of trees in the Sapotaceae described as a genus in 1890.

<i>Fontainea pancheri</i> Species of plant

Fontainea pancheri is a small tree or shrub endemic to New Caledonia in the family, Euphorbiaceae, which grows to a height of 15 m.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Rumphius, Georg Eberhard. 1824. in Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de , De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 33
  3. Tropicos, Codiaeum Rumph. ex A. Juss
  4. "Codiaeum variegatum var. Moluccanum | Atlas of Living Australia". Archived from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
  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. Floridata: Codiaeum. Floridata. Accessed June 10, 2012.