Chaetocarpus

Chaetocarpus is a plant genus of the family Peraceae, formerly Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1854.[2][3] Chaetocarpus species are trees or shrubs. They are native to the Americas, Africa,[4] and Asia.[5][1] Some species are endangered.[6]

Species[1]
  1. Chaetocarpus acutifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi – Sierra de Moa in Cuba
  2. Chaetocarpus africanus Pax – C Africa
  3. Chaetocarpus castanocarpus (Roxb.) Thwaites – SE Asia, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
  4. Chaetocarpus cordifolius (Urb.) Borhidi – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica
  5. Chaetocarpus coriaceus Thwaites – Sri Lanka
  6. Chaetocarpus cubensis Fawc. & Rendle – Cuba
  7. Chaetocarpus echinocarpus (Baill.) Ducke – Bolivia, Brazil
  8. Chaetocarpus ferrugineus Philcox – Sri Lanka
  9. Chaetocarpus gabonensis Breteler – Gabon
  10. Chaetocarpus globosus (Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle – Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep.
  11. Chaetocarpus myrsinites Baill. – Bolivia, Brazil
  12. Chaetocarpus parvifolius Borhidi – Cuba
  13. Chaetocarpus pearcei Rusby – Bolivia
  14. Chaetocarpus pubescens (Thwaites) Hook.f. – Sri Lanka
  15. Chaetocarpus rabaraba Capuron – Madagascar
  16. Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus (Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm. – Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil
member of homonymic genus, synonym of Pouteria

Chaetocarpus
Chaetocarpus echinocarpus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Peraceae
Genus: Chaetocarpus
Thwaites 1854, conserved name, not Schreb. 1789 (Sapotaceae)
Type species
Chaetocarpus pungens
Synonyms[1]

Chaetocarpus pouteria J.F.Gmel, synonym of Pouteria guianensis Aubl. (Sapotaceae)

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1854. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 300-301, pl. 10a description in Latin, habitat info and commentary in English
  3. Tropicos, genus Chaetocarpus
  4. Breteler, F. J. (2002). Novitates Gabonenses 46. A new Chaetocarpus (Euphorbiaceae) from Gabon. Archived 22 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Adansonia 24(2) 221-27.
  5. Chaetocarpus. Flora of China.
  6. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Chaetocarpus pubescens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Retrieved 8 May 2013.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.