Neoboutonia
| Neoboutonia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Crotonoideae |
| Tribe: | Aleuritideae |
| Subtribe: | Neoboutoniinae |
| Genus: | Neoboutonia Airy Shaw |
| Type species | |
| Neoboutonia africana (syn of N. melleri)[1][2] Airy Shaw | |
Neoboutonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864.[3][2] It is the only genus in subtribe Neoboutoniinae, and native to tropical Africa.[1][4][5] [6][7]
- Species[1]
- Neoboutonia macrocalyx Pax - Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Neoboutonia mannii Benth. & Hook.f. - tropical Africa from Liberia to Mozambique
- Neoboutonia melleri (Müll.Arg.) Prain - tropical Africa from Nigeria to Mozambique
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Neoboutonia Müll. Arg.
- ↑ Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1864. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 2: 336
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
- ↑ Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
- ↑ Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.