Chaetocarpus

Chaetocarpus
Chaetocarpus echinocarpus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Chaetocarpeae
Genus: Chaetocarpus
Thwaites 1854, conserved name, not Schreb. 1789 (Sapotaceae)
Type species
Chaetocarpus pungens
Thwaites
Synonyms[1]
  • Gaedawakka Kuntze
  • Mettenia Griseb.
  • Neochevaliera A.Chev. & Beille
  • Regnaldia Baill.

Chaetocarpus is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1854.[2][3] Chaetocarpus species are trees or shrubs. There 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 pouteria J.F.Gmel, synonym of Pouteria guianensis Aubl. (Sapotaceae)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. 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. Downloaded on 8 May 2013.