Alchorneopsis

Alchorneopsis
Alchorneopsis portoricensis[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Caryodendreae
Genus: Alchorneopsis
Müll.Arg.
Type species
Alchorneopsis floribunda
(Benth.) Müll.Arg.

Alchorneopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1865.[2][3] It is native to Central America, the Greater Antilles, and northern South America.[4][5][6][7][8]

Species[4]
  1. Alchorneopsis floribunda (Benth.) Müll.Arg. - Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, 3 Guianas, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, NW Brazil
  2. Alchorneopsis portoricensis Urb. - Puerto Rico (considered by some authors to be a synonym for A. floribunda)[8]

References

  1. ↑ drawing from US Department of Agriculture Forest Service Collection
  2. ↑ Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1865. Linnaea 34: 156-157 in Latin
  3. ↑ Tropicos
  4. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Secco, R. D. S. (2001). Notas adicionais sobre a taxonomia ea distribuição geográfica dos gêneros Alchorneopsis Muell. Arg., Cleidion Blume e Polyandra Leal (Euphorbiaceae-Acalyphoideae). Acta Botanica Brasilica 15.
  7. ↑ Alchorneopsis portoricensis. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
  8. 1 2 Endemic Plant Facts - January 2011 - Alchorneopsis portoricensis. El Yunque National Forest. USDA Forest Service.
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