Drypetes

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Drypetes
Drypetes deplanchei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Putranjivaceae
Genus: Drypetes
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Selected species
  • Drypetes australasica
  • Drypetes caustica
  • Drypetes darcyana
  • Drypetes deplanchei
  • Drypetes glauca
  • Drypetes lasiogyna
  • Drypetes littoralis
  • Drypetes paxii
  • Drypetes sepiaria
  • Drypetes variabilis

Drypetes is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae. It was previously put in family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family. The genus comprises about 200 species. Along with Putranjiva,[1] also in the Putranjivaceae, it contains the only plants outside the Brassicales known to contain mustard oils.[2]

Synonymy

The genus has also been known under a number of synonyms:

References

  1. Pamela S. Soltis & Douglas E. Soltis (2004). "The origin and diversification of angiosperms". American Journal of Botany 91 (10): 1614–1626. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.10.1614. PMID 21652312. 
  2. Jocelyn C. Hall, Kenneth J. Sytsma & Hugh H. Iltis (2002). "Phylogeny of Capparaceae and Brassicaceae based on chloroplast sequence data". American Journal of Botany 89 (11): 1826–1842. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.11.1826. PMID 21665611. 

External links

  • Media related to Drypetes at Wikimedia Commons


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