Tetracoccus (plant)

Tetracoccus
Tetracoccus dioicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Podocalyceae
Subtribe: Tetracoccinae
Genus: Tetracoccus
Engelm. ex Parry
Type species
Tetracoccus dioicus
Parry
Synonyms[1]

Halliophytum I.M.Johnst.

Tetracoccus is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae first described in 1885.[2][3] Its name means, from Greek "four seed" (tetra meaning "four" and kokkos, "kernel, grain"). The genus is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.[1][4][5][6]

Species[1]
  1. Tetracoccus capensis (I.M.Johnst.) Croizat- Baja California Sur
  2. Tetracoccus dioicus Parry - Baja California, S California (San Diego, Orange, Riverside Cos.)
  3. Tetracoccus fasciculatus (S.Watson) Croizat - Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo León, Puebla), California (Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino Cos.), Nevada (Clark Co.), Arizona (Mohave, La Paz, Maricopa, Yuma Cos.)
  4. Tetracoccus ilicifolius Coville & Gilman - Death Valley National Park in Inyo County in California

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Parry, Charles Christopher. 1885. West American Scientist 1(3): 13–14
  3. ↑ Tropicos
  4. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
  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. ↑ Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.