Drypetes

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Drypetes
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Drypetes deplanchei
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Fruits of Drypetes sepiaria with leaves
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Putranjivaceae
Genus: Drypetes
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Synonyms [1]

Drypetes is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, in the order Malpighiales.

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It was previously in the family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family.

The genus comprises about 200 species, found in Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean, southern Florida, Mexico, and various oceanic islands. [1] They are dioecious trees or shrubs. [2]

Along with Putranjiva , [3] also in the Putranjivaceae, Drypetes contains the only plants outside the Brassicales known to contain mustard oils. [4]

Species

The Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) lists: [1]

  1. Drypetes acuminata – Queensland
  2. Drypetes aetoxyloides – Sabah
  3. Drypetes aframensis – W Africa
  4. Drypetes afzelii – W Africa
  5. Drypetes alba – West Indies
  6. Drypetes amazonica – Ecuador, NW Brazil
  7. Drypetes ambigua – Madagascar
  8. Drypetes andamanica – Myanmar, Andaman Is
  9. Drypetes angustifolia – Central Africa
  10. Drypetes arcuatinervia – China, Vietnam
  11. Drypetes arguta – E + S Africa
  12. Drypetes assamica – E Himalayas, N Indochina
  13. Drypetes aubrevillei – W Africa
  14. Drypetes australis KwaZulu-Natal
  15. Drypetes aylmeri – W Africa
  16. Drypetes bakembei – Central African Republic
  17. Drypetes balakrishnanii – Bangladesh, Myanmar
  18. Drypetes bathiei – Madagascar
  19. Drypetes bawanii – Philippines
  20. Drypetes bhattacharyae Andaman & Nicobar
  21. Drypetes bipindensis – C Africa
  22. Drypetes bisacuta – Laos
  23. Drypetes brownii – S Mexico, C America
  24. Drypetes caesia – Sabah, Kalimantan
  25. Drypetes calvescens – C Africa
  26. Drypetes calyptosepala – Sumatra
  27. Drypetes cambodica – Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar
  28. Drypetes capillipes – C Africa
  29. Drypetes capuronii – Madagascar
  30. Drypetes carolinensis Yap
  31. Drypetes castilloi – Sabah
  32. Drypetes caustica Réunion
  33. Drypetes celastrinea – Cameroon
  34. Drypetes celebica – Sulawesi, W New Guinea
  35. Drypetes chevalieri – W + C Africa
  36. Drypetes cinnabarina – C Africa
  37. Drypetes cockburnii – Malaysia
  38. Drypetes comorensis Mayotte
  39. Drypetes confertiflora Karnataka
  40. Drypetes congestiflora – China, Philippines
  41. Drypetes convoluta Luzon
  42. Drypetes crassipes – Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
  43. Drypetes cumingii – China, Philippines
  44. Drypetes curtisii – S Indochina, Borneo
  45. Drypetes darcyana Mayotte
  46. Drypetes darimontiana Zaïre
  47. Drypetes dasycarpa – Thailand
  48. Drypetes dasyneura – Sumatra
  49. Drypetes deplanchei – New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia
  50. Drypetes detersibilis – Malaysia
  51. Drypetes dewildei – Sumatra
  52. Drypetes dinklagei – C Africa
  53. Drypetes diopa – C Africa
  54. Drypetes diversifolia Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hispaniola
  55. Drypetes dolichocarpa Saipan
  56. Drypetes dussii Martinique
  57. Drypetes eglandulosa – Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar
  58. Drypetes ellipsoidea Leyte
  59. Drypetes elliptica – either Myanmar or Andaman Islands but extinct
  60. Drypetes ellisii Andaman Islands
  61. Drypetes eriocarpa – Sarawak
  62. Drypetes euryodes – Gabon, Angola
  63. Drypetes falcata Camiguin
  64. Drypetes fallax – C Africa
  65. Drypetes fanshawei – Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador
  66. Drypetes fernandopoana Bioko
  67. Drypetes floribunda – W Africa
  68. Drypetes forbesii – Sumatra
  69. Drypetes fusiformis – Sabah, Kalimantan
  70. Drypetes gabonensis – Gabon, Congo
  71. Drypetes gardneri – India, Sri Lanka
  72. Drypetes gentryi – Mexico
  73. Drypetes gerrardii – E + S Africa
  74. Drypetes gerrardinoides – Tanzania
  75. Drypetes gilgiana – W + C Africa
  76. Drypetes gitingensis Sibuyan
  77. Drypetes glaberrima – W New Guinea
  78. Drypetes glabra Rolas I., São Tomé
  79. Drypetes glabridiscus – Sulawesi
  80. Drypetes glauca – West Indies
  81. Drypetes globosa – Philippines
  82. Drypetes gossweileri – C Africa
  83. Drypetes gracilis – Cameroon
  84. Drypetes grandifolia – Philippines
  85. Drypetes guatemalensis – Guatemala
  86. Drypetes hainanensis Hainan, Thailand, Vietnam, Sabah, Sulawesi
  87. Drypetes harmandii – Laos, Thailand
  88. Drypetes helferi – Myanmar, Thailand
  89. Drypetes henriquesii São Tomé
  90. Drypetes heptandra – Philippines
  91. Drypetes hoaensis Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam
  92. Drypetes iliae – Sabah, Sarawak
  93. Drypetes ilicifolia – Jamaica, Dominican Rep, Puerto Rico
  94. Drypetes impressinervis – Sarawak
  95. Drypetes inaequalis – W Africa
  96. Drypetes indica – S China, E Himalayas, N Indochina
  97. Drypetes integerrima Ogasawara-shoto, Kazan-retto
  98. Drypetes integrifolia – S China
  99. Drypetes iodoformis – Queensland
  100. Drypetes ituriensis – C Africa
  101. Drypetes ivorensis – W Africa
  102. Drypetes jaintensis Meghalaya
  103. Drypetes kalamii West Bengal,India
  104. Drypetes kikir – Malaysia, Borneo
  105. Drypetes klainei – W Africa
  106. Drypetes kwangtungensis Guangdong
  107. Drypetes laciniata – W Africa
  108. Drypetes laevis – Sumatra, Borneo
  109. Drypetes lasiogynoides – New Guinea
  110. Drypetes lateriflora – West Indies, Mexico, C America, Florida
  111. Drypetes leiocarpa Nicobar Islands
  112. Drypetes leonensis – W + C Africa
  113. Drypetes littoralis – Taiwan, Java, Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines
  114. Drypetes longifolia – SE Asia, New Guinea
  115. Drypetes longistipitata Hainan
  116. Drypetes macrostigma Kalimantan
  117. Drypetes madagascariensis – Madagascar
  118. Drypetes magnistipula – Gabon, Cameroon
  119. Drypetes malabarica Tamil Nadu
  120. Drypetes maquilingensis – Philippines, Banggi, Sulawesi
  121. Drypetes microphylla – Nicobar Is, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines
  122. Drypetes microphylloides – Sumatra
  123. Drypetes mildbraedii – C Africa
  124. Drypetes minahassae – Java, Sulawesi
  125. Drypetes moliwensis – Cameroon
  126. Drypetes molunduana – C Africa
  127. Drypetes monachinoi Bolívar
  128. Drypetes monosperma Luzon
  129. Drypetes mossambicensis – SE Africa
  130. Drypetes mucronata – Bahamas, Cuba
  131. Drypetes nakaiana Palau
  132. Drypetes natalensis – E + S Africa
  133. Drypetes neglecta – Indonesia
  134. Drypetes nervosa – Malaysia
  135. Drypetes nitida Palau
  136. Drypetes obanensis – C Africa
  137. Drypetes oblongifolia – India, Sri Lanka
  138. Drypetes obtusa – China, Vietnam
  139. Drypetes occidentalis – C Africa
  140. Drypetes ochrodasya – Sumatra
  141. Drypetes ochrothrix – Thailand, Sabah
  142. Drypetes oppositifolia – Madagascar
  143. Drypetes ovalis – Java, Philippines
  144. Drypetes oxyodonta – Malaysia
  145. Drypetes pachycarpa – Malaysia
  146. Drypetes pacifica – Fiji
  147. Drypetes parvifolia – C Africa
  148. Drypetes paxii - C Africa
  149. Drypetes pellegrinii – W Africa
  150. Drypetes peltophora – Cameroon
  151. Drypetes pendula – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo
  152. Drypetes perakensis – Malaysia
  153. Drypetes perreticulata – S China, N Indochina
  154. Drypetes perrieri Comoros, Madagascar
  155. Drypetes picardae – Hispaniola
  156. Drypetes pierreana – Gabon, Congo
  157. Drypetes poilanei – Vietnam
  158. Drypetes polyalthioides – Kalimantan
  159. Drypetes polyantha – C Africa
  160. Drypetes polyneura Bangka, Sabah, Kalimantan
  161. Drypetes porteri Tamil Nadu
  162. Drypetes preussii – W Africa
  163. Drypetes principum – C + W Africa
  164. Drypetes prunifera Sabah
  165. Drypetes reticulata – S + E Africa
  166. Drypetes rhakodiskos – SE Asia
  167. Drypetes riparia – Malaysia
  168. Drypetes riseleyi Seychelles
  169. Drypetes rotensis Rota in Micronesia
  170. Drypetes rubriflora – Cameroon
  171. Drypetes salicifolia Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam
  172. Drypetes sclerophylla Kilwa in Tanzania
  173. Drypetes sepiaria – India, Sri Lanka
  174. Drypetes sessiliflora – S Brazil
  175. Drypetes sherffii – Sumatra
  176. Drypetes sibuyanensis – insular SE Asia
  177. Drypetes simalurensis – Sumatra, Simeuluë
  178. Drypetes singroboensis – Ivory Coast
  179. Drypetes spinosodentata – C Africa
  180. Drypetes standleyi – C America, Venezuela, Ecuador
  181. Drypetes staudtii – Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo
  182. Drypetes stipulacea – Madagascar
  183. Drypetes stipularis – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
  184. Drypetes stylosa – Sarawak
  185. Drypetes subcrenata – Luzon
  186. Drypetes subcubica – Java, Bali, New Guinea, Queensland
  187. Drypetes subsessilis – E Himalayas, N Thailand, N Myanmar, Andaman Is
  188. Drypetes subsymmetrica – Simeuluë
  189. Drypetes sumatrana – Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Nicobar Is, Flores
  190. Drypetes talamauensis – Sumatra
  191. Drypetes taylorii – Kenya
  192. Drypetes tessmanniana – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
  193. Drypetes thorelii – Cambodia, Vietnam
  194. Drypetes thouarsiana – Madagascar
  195. Drypetes thouarsii – Madagascar
  196. Drypetes tomentella – SE Asia but extinct
  197. Drypetes ugandensis C + E Africa
  198. Drypetes usambarica – Kenya, Tanzania
  199. Drypetes variabilis N South America
  200. Drypetes venusta – S India
  201. Drypetes vernicosa – Queensland
  202. Drypetes verrucosa – Gabon
  203. Drypetes vilhenae – Angola
  204. Drypetes viridis – Thailand, Malaysia
  205. Drypetes vitiensis – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
  206. Drypetes wightii – S India
  207. Drypetes xanthophylloides – Sarawak
  208. Drypetes yapensis Yap in Micronesia

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