Discoclaoxylon

Discoclaoxylon
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Acalypheae
Subtribe: Claoxylinae
Genus: Discoclaoxylon
(Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.

Discoclaoxylon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1914.[1][2] It is native to western and central Africa, including islands in the Gulf of Guinea.[3][4][5]

Species[3]
  1. Discoclaoxylon hexandrum (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire, Uganda
  2. Discoclaoxylon occidentale (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - São Tomé
  3. Discoclaoxylon pedicellare (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Bioko
  4. Discoclaoxylon pubescens (Pax & K.Hoffm.) Exell - Annobón


References

  1. Pax, Ferdinand Albin, Hoffmann, Käthe, & Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf. 1914. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 147 VII(Heft 63): 137
  2. Tropicos, genus Discoclaoxylon
  3. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  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. Barberá, P., Velayos, M. & Aedo, C. (2013). Annotated checklist and identification keys of the Acalyphoideae (Euphorbiaceae) of Equatorial Guinea (Annobón, Bioko and Río Muni). Phytotaxa 140: 1-25.


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