Acidoton

Acidoton
Male flower of Acidoton urens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Plukenetieae
Subtribe: Tragiinae
Genus: Acidoton
Sw. 1788, conserved name, not P. Browne 1756
Type species
Acidoton urens
Synonyms

Acidoton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788. It is native to the Greater Antilles, Central America, and tropical South America.

Species
  1. Acidoton haitiensis Alain - Haiti
  2. Acidoton lanceolatus Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
  3. Acidoton microphyllus Urb. - Hispaniola
  4. Acidoton nicaraguensis (Hemsl.) G.L.Webster - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
  5. Acidoton urens Sw. - Jamaica
  6. Acidoton variifolius Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola
Formerly included

moved to other genera (Flueggea Jablonskia Margaritaria Meineckia Securinega )

  1. A. acidothamnus - Flueggea acidoton
  2. A. baillonianus - Margaritaria discoidea var. triplosphaera
  3. A. buxifolius - Flueggea tinctoria
  4. A. congestus - Jablonskia congesta
  5. A. durissimus - Securinega durissima
  6. A. ellipticus - Flueggea elliptica
  7. A. flexuosus - Flueggea flexuosa
  8. A. flueggeoides - Flueggea suffruticosa
  9. A. griseus - Flueggea virosa
  10. A. hilarianus - Meineckia neogranatensis subsp. hilariana
  11. A. leucopyrus - Flueggea leucopyrus
  12. A. obovatus - Flueggea virosa
  13. A. phyllanthoides - Flueggea virosa
  14. A. ramiflorus - Flueggea suffruticosa
  15. A. schuechianus - Flueggea schuechiana
  16. A. trichogynus - Meineckia trichogynis
  17. A. virosus - Flueggea virosa
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