Alchornea
Alchornea sicca[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Alchorneae
Subtribe: Alchorneinae
Genus: Alchornea
Sw.
Synonyms[2]

Alchornea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788.[3][4] It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, South Asia, Australia, Latin America, and various oceanic islands.[2] Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that Bocquillonia from New Caledonia is nested in Alchornea.[5]

Species[2]
  1. Alchornea acutifolia - Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
  2. Alchornea alnifolia - Madagascar, Mayotte
  3. Alchornea anamariae - Peru, Bolivia
  4. Alchornea androgyna - N Vietnam
  5. Alchornea annamica - Vietnam
  6. Alchornea aquifolia - Queensland, New South Wales
  7. Alchornea bogotensis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
  8. Alchornea brittonii - Peru, Bolivia
  9. Alchornea castaneifolia - South America
  10. Alchornea chiapasana - Veracruz, Chiapas
  11. Alchornea coelophylla - Colombia, Ecuador
  12. Alchornea cordifolia - tropical Africa
  13. Alchornea costaricensis - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
  14. Alchornea davidii - S China
  15. Alchornea discolor - South America
  16. Alchornea floribunda - tropical Africa
  17. Alchornea fluviatilis - South America
  18. Alchornea glabra - Anhui
  19. Alchornea glandulosa - South + Central America
  20. Alchornea grandiflora - South + Central America
  21. Alchornea grandis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
  22. Alchornea guatemalensis - Baja Verapaz
  23. Alchornea hilariana - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
  24. Alchornea hirtella - Africa
  25. Alchornea humbertii - Madagascar
  26. Alchornea hunanensis - Hunan
  27. Alchornea integrifolia - Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia
  28. Alchornea latifolia - Mexico, West Indies, C + S America
  29. Alchornea laxiflora - Africa
  30. Alchornea liukiuensis - Taiwan, Nansei-shoto
  31. Alchornea lojaensis - Ecuador
  32. Alchornea megalophylla - Colombia, Panama
  33. Alchornea mildbraedii - Cameroon
  34. Alchornea mollis - E Himalayas
  35. Alchornea occidentalis - C Africa
  36. Alchornea parviflora - Thailand, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
  37. Alchornea pearcei - Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
  38. Alchornea perrieri - Madagascar
  39. Alchornea rhodophylla - Penang
  40. Alchornea rugosa - SE Asia, S China, Assam, Queensland, Papuasia
  41. Alchornea scandens - Vietnam
  42. Alchornea sicca - Luzon, Indochina
  43. Alchornea sidifolia - S Brazil, Misiones
  44. Alchornea tachirensis - Venezuela, Colombia
  45. Alchornea tiliifolia - SE Asia, E Himalayas
  46. Alchornea trewioides - S China, N Vietnam
  47. Alchornea triplinervia - South + Central America, Trinidad
  48. Alchornea ulmifolia - Ryukyu Islands
  49. Alchornea vaniotii - Yunnan
  50. Alchornea websteri - Ecuador
  51. Alchornea yambuyaensis - SC Africa
formerly included

moved to other genera (Aparisthmium Cleidion Cnesmone Discocleidion Discoglypremna Necepsia Neoscortechinia Orfilea Sampantaea Trigonostemon Wetria )

  1. A. amentiflora - Sampantaea amentiflora
  2. A. arborea - Neoscortechinia nicobarica
  3. A. blumeana - Wetria insignis
  4. A. caloneura - Discoglypremna caloneura
  5. A. castaneifolia - Necepsia castaneifolia
  6. A. cordata (A.Juss.) Müll.Arg. 1866 not Benth. 1849 - Aparisthmium cordatum
  7. A. coriacea (Baill.) Müll.Arg. 1865 not Ule 1909 - Orfilea coriacea
  8. A. cuneata - Trigonostemon heteranthus
  9. A. cuneifolia - Trigonostemon heteranthus
  10. A. latifolia Klotzsch not Sw. 1788 - Aparisthmium cordatum
  11. A. macrophylla - Aparisthmium cordatum
  12. A. madagascariensis - Necepsia castaneifolia
  13. A. mairei - Cnesmone mairei
  14. A. mappa - Macaranga mappa
  15. A. martiana - Conceveiba martiana
  16. A. multispicata - Orfilea multispicata
  17. A. oblongifolia - Cleidion castaneifolium
  18. A. orinocensis - Aparisthmium cordatum
  19. A. rufescens - Discocleidion rufescens

References

  1. illustration circa 1880, from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas
  2. 1 2 3 "Alchornea in". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  3. Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 98 in Latin
  4. Alchornea in PlantList
  5. Wurdack, K. J., P. Hoffmann, and M. W. Chase (2005). Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Uniovulate Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiaceae Sensu Stricto) Using Plastid rbcL and trnL-F DNA Sequences.” American Journal of Botany 92(8): 1397–1420.


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