Neoboutonia

Neoboutonia
Neoboutonia mannii specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Crotonoideae
Tribe:	Aleuritideae
Subtribe:	Neoboutoniinae
Genus:	Neoboutonia Airy Shaw
Type species
Neoboutonia africana (syn of N. melleri) [1] [2] Airy Shaw

Neoboutonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864. ^{[3] [2]} It is the only genus in subtribe Neoboutoniinae, and native to tropical Africa. ^{[1] [4] [5] [6] [7]} It is dioecious. ^[8]

Species ^[1]

1. Neoboutonia macrocalyx Pax - Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
2. Neoboutonia mannii Benth. & Hook.f. - tropical Africa from Liberia to Mozambique
3. Neoboutonia melleri (Müll.Arg.) Prain - tropical Africa from Nigeria to Mozambique

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. "Tropicos, Neoboutonia Müll. Arg". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-04.
3. Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1864. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 2: 336
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. Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
6. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
7. Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
8. Van Welzen, Peter C.; Stuppy, Wolfgang (1999). "Phylogenetic Considerations of Euphorbiaceae Tribe Aleuritideae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 86 (4): 894–903. doi:10.2307/2666174. JSTOR   2666174.