Platygyna

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Platygyna
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Plukenetieae
Subtribe: Tragiinae
Genus:Platygyna
Mercier
Synonyms [1]

Platygyna is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1830. [2] [3] It is native to Cuba and Haiti in the West Indies. [1] [4]

A genus is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus.

Plant multicellular eukaryote of the kingdom Plantae

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants. However, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes. By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae, a group that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and the green algae, but excludes the red and brown algae.

Family is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy; it is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as being the "walnut family".

Species [1]
  1. Platygyna dentata Alain - SE Cuba
  2. Platygyna hexandra (Jacq.) Müll.Arg. - Cuba, Haiti
  3. Platygyna leonis Alain - E Cuba
  4. Platygyna obovata Borhidi - E Cuba
  5. Platygyna parvifolia Alain - E Cuba
  6. Platygyna triandra Borhidi - E Cuba
  7. Platygyna volubilis Howard - E Cuba

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Lasiocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1859. The genus is endemic to the West Indies.

  1. Lasiocroton bahamensisPax & K.Hoffm. - Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti
  2. Lasiocroton fawcettiiUrb. - Jamaica
  3. Lasiocroton gracilisBritton & P.Wilson - SE Cuba
  4. Lasiocroton gutierreziiJestrow - Cuba
  5. Lasiocroton harrisiiBritton - Jamaica
  6. Lasiocroton macrophyllus(Sw.) Griseb. - Jamaica
  7. Lasiocroton microphyllus(A.Rich.) Jestrow - Cuba
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  3. Lasiocroton prunifoliusGriseb. - Croton punctatusJacq.
  4. Lasiocroton subpeltatusUrb. - Leucocroton subpeltatus(Urb.) Alain
  5. Lasiocroton trelawniensisC.D.Adams - Bernardia trelawniensis(C.D.Adams) Jestrow & Proctor
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  1. Chaetocarpus acutifolius(Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi - Sierra de Moa in Cuba
  2. Chaetocarpus africanusPax - C Africa
  3. Chaetocarpus castanocarpus(Roxb.) Thwaites - SE Asia, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
  4. Chaetocarpus cordifolius(Urb.) Borhidi - Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica
  5. Chaetocarpus coriaceusThwaites - Sri Lanka
  6. Chaetocarpus cubensisFawc. & Rendle - Cuba
  7. Chaetocarpus echinocarpus (Baill.) Ducke - Bolivia, Brazil
  8. Chaetocarpus ferrugineusPhilcox - Sri Lanka
  9. Chaetocarpus gabonensisBreteler - Gabon
  10. Chaetocarpus globosus(Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle - Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep.
  11. Chaetocarpus myrsinitesBaill. - Bolivia, Brazil
  12. Chaetocarpus parvifoliusBorhidi - Cuba
  13. Chaetocarpus pearceiRusby - Bolivia
  14. Chaetocarpus pubescens(Thwaites) Hook.f. - Sri Lanka
  15. Chaetocarpus rabarabaCapuron - Madagascar
  16. Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus(Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil

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  1. Ditta maestrensisBorhidi - Sierra Maestra in SE Cuba
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  1. Bonania cubanaA.Rich. - Bahamas, Cuba
  2. Bonania domingensis(Urb.) Urb. - Haiti, Dominican Rep
  3. Bonania ellipticaUrb. - Cuba
  4. Bonania emarginataC.Wright ex Griseb. - Cuba
  5. Bonania erythrosperma(Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. - Cuba
  6. Bonania linearifoliaUrb. & Ekman - Haiti
  7. †Bonania myricifolia(Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f. - Guantánamo but extinct

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  1. Grimmeodendron eglandulosum(A.Rich.) Urb. - Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti
  2. Grimmeodendron jamaicenseUrb. - Jamaica
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  1. Chascotheca neopeltandra(Griseb.) Urb. - Cuba, Hispaniola, Cayman Islands
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  1. Neobracea acunanaLippold - E Cuba
  2. Neobracea angustifoliaBritton - W Cuba
  3. Neobracea bahamensis(Britton) Britton - Bahamas, Cuba
  4. Neobracea ekmaniiUrb. - E Cuba
  5. Neobracea howardiiWoodson - EC Cuba
  6. Neobracea martianaBorhidi & O.Muñiz - E Cuba
  7. Neobracea susanninaBorhidi - E Cuba
  8. Neobracea valenzuelana(A.Rich.) Urb. - Cuba

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Mercier, Elysée. 1830. Bulletin Botanique [Geneve] 1: 168
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Platygyna Mercier
  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.


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