Ptychopyxis

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Ptychopyxis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Pycnocomeae
Subtribe: Blumeodendrinae
Genus:Ptychopyxis
Miq.
Synonyms [1]

Ptychopyxis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1861. [2] [3] It is native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea. [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. Ptychopyxis arborea - Borneo
  2. Ptychopyxis bacciformis - Vietnam, Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines, W Malaysia
  3. Ptychopyxis caput-medusae - W Malaysia
  4. Ptychopyxis chrysantha - New Guinea
  5. Ptychopyxis costata - Borneo, Sumatra, W Malaysia
  6. Ptychopyxis glochidiifolia - Sumatra, Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan Timur
  7. Ptychopyxis grandis - Borneo
  8. Ptychopyxis javanica - S Thailand, Vietnam, W Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java
  9. Ptychopyxis kingii - W Malaysia, E Sumatra, Sarawak, Sabah
  10. Ptychopyxis plagiocarpa - S Thailand, S Myanmar
formerly included [1]

moved to Koilodepas

  1. Ptychopyxis frutescens - Koilodepas frutescens
  2. Ptychopyxis thwaitesii - Podadenia sapida

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm. 1861. Flora van Nederlandsch Indie, Eerste Bijvoegsel 402 in Latin
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Ptychopyxis Miq.
  4. ↑ Stoops, E. & van Welzen, P.C. (2013). A revision of Ptychopyxis (Euphorbiaceae) in southeast Asia. Nordic Journal of Botany 31: 94-112.


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