Dalechampia dioscoreifolia

Dalechampia dioscoreifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Genus:	Dalechampia
Species:	D. dioscoreifolia
Binomial name
Dalechampia dioscoreifolia Poepp. 1841 not Pulle 1906

Dalechampia dioscoreifolia is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1841. ^{[1] [2]} It is native to Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northern and western South America (Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, northern Brazil, Bolivia, and possibly Ecuador). ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}

Photo of Dalechampia aristolochiifolia, which is often misidentified as D. dioscoreifolia

References

1. Poeppig, Eduard Friedrich & Endlicher, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1841. Nova genera ac species plantarum, quas in regno Chilensi Peruviano et in terra Amazonica 3: 20 in Latin
2. Tropicos, Dalechampia dioscoreifolia Poepp.
3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666.
5. Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
6. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
7. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286
8. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "2010". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
9. Webster, G. L. & W. S. Armbruster. 1991. A synopsis of the neotropical species of Dalechampia (Euphorbiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 105(2): 137–177.