Thecacoris

Thecacoris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Tribe: Antidesmeae
Subtribe: Antidesminae
Genus: Thecacoris
A.Juss.
Synonyms[1]
  • Baccaureopsis Pax
  • Cyathogyne Müll.Arg.
  • Henribaillonia Kuntze

Thecacoris is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus n 1821.[2][3] It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar.[1][4][5]

Species[1]
  1. Thecacoris cometia - Madagascar
  2. Thecacoris glabroglandulosa - Gabon, Zaïre
  3. Thecacoris grandifolia - Gabon, Cameroon
  4. Thecacoris humbertii - Madagascar
  5. Thecacoris lancifolia - Gabon
  6. Thecacoris latistipula - Zaïre
  7. Thecacoris leptobotrya - C Africa
  8. Thecacoris lucida - C Africa
  9. Thecacoris madagascariensis - Madagascar
  10. Thecacoris micrantha - Ivory Coast, Ghana
  11. Thecacoris perrieri - Madagascar
  12. Thecacoris spathulifolia - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar
  13. Thecacoris stenopetala - C + W Africa
  14. Thecacoris trichogyne - C Africa
  15. Thecacoris usambarensis - Kenya, Tanzania
  16. Thecacoris viridis - C Africa
formerly included

moved to other genera: Maesobotrya Spondianthus

  1. Thecacoris glabrata - Maesobotrya glabrata
  2. Thecacoris trillesii - Spondianthus preussii subsp. glaber


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de. 1824. De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 12, 105
  3. Tropicos, Thecacoris A. Juss
  4. 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.
  5. Breteler, F.J. (2011). Thecacoris, including Cyathogyne (Phyllanthaceae), in West Africa: Generic delimination, description of a new species, and a synopsis of all West African species. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 68: 343-350.