Hura (plant)

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Hura
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Hura crepitans
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Euphorbioideae
Tribe: Hureae
Genus: Hura
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Species

Hura is a genus of trees in the family Euphorbiaceae described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [1] [2] It is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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Species

  1. Hura crepitans L. - from Nicaragua + Bahamas south to Bolivia; naturalized in parts of Africa (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Central African Republic) [3]
  2. Hura polyandra Baill. - Mexico, Central America, Ecuador [3]

Names in homonymic genus

In 1783, Johann Gerhard König used the name Hura to refer to a very different plant from the one Linnaeus had named. Thus was created an illegitimate homonym. [8] [9] Under the rules of nomenclature, Koenig's name had to be abandoned. The two names created using his genus are now in the genus Globba , as follows:

  1. Hura koenigii - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae) [10] [9]
  2. Hura siamensium - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae) [10] [9]
Detail of the spines on the bark of a Hura tree Hura bark.JPG
Detail of the spines on the bark of a Hura tree

References

  1. ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1008 in Latin
  2. ↑ Tropicos, Hura L.
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura L. [ permanent dead link ]
  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. ↑ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  6. ↑ Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
  7. ↑ González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394
  8. ↑ in Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1783 Observationes Botanicae 3: 37 ("49").
  9. 1 2 3 "Tropicos - Name - *Hura J. Koenig". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  10. 1 2 http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=100848%5B%5D Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius
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