Neoscortechinia

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Neoscortechinia
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Neoscortechinia

Type species
Alcinaeanthus philippinensis
Synonyms [1]
  • Alcinaeanthus Merr.
  • Scortechinia Hook.f. 1887, illegitimate homonym, not Sacc. 1885 (a fungus)

Neoscortechinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897. [2] [3] It is native to Southeast Asia and Papuasia. [1] [4]

Species [1]
  1. Neoscortechinia angustifolia (Airy Shaw) Welzen - Sabah, Kalimantan
  2. Neoscortechinia forbesii (Hook.f.) S.Moore - New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
  3. Neoscortechinia kingii (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
  4. Neoscortechinia nicobarica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, W New Guinea
  5. Neoscortechinia philippinensis (Merr.) Welzen - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines
  6. Neoscortechinia sumatrensis S.Moore - W Malaysia, N. Sumatra, Simeuluë, Borneo

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pax, Ferdinand Albin. 1897. in Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf & Prantl, Karl Anton Eugen, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachter. 1: 213
  3. Tropicos
  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.