Caperonia

False croton
Caperonia palustris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subtribe: Ditaxinae
Genus: Caperonia
A.St.-Hil.
Synonyms
  • Acanthopyxis Miq. ex Lanj. not validly published
  • Androphoranthus H.Karst.
  • Cavanilla Vell. 1829, illegitimate homonym, not J.F. Gmel. 1792 (Malvaceae) nor Thunb. 1792 (Icacinaceae) nor Salisb. 1792 (Theaceae)
  • Lepidococea Turcz.
  • Meterana Raf.

Caperonia (false croton) is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical America and Africa.

Species
  1. Caperonia aculeolata - S Brazil
  2. Caperonia altissima - Paraguay
  3. Caperonia angustissima - Guyana
  4. Caperonia bahiensis - E Brazil, Paraguay
  5. Caperonia buettneriacea - S Brazil
  6. Caperonia capiibariensis - Paraguay
  7. Caperonia castaneifolia - widespread from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay + NE Argentina; naturalized in Florida, Alabama
  8. Caperonia castrobarrosiana - Maranhão
  9. Caperonia chiltepecensis - Veracruz, Oaxaca
  10. Caperonia corchoroides - Guyana, Suriname
  11. Caperonia cordata - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
  12. Caperonia cubana - Cuba
  13. Caperonia fistulosa - Africa from Mali to Somalia to Namibia
  14. Caperonia gardneri - Brazil
  15. Caperonia glabrata - Paraguay, Formosa
  16. Caperonia heteropetala - S Brazil
  17. Caperonia langsdorffii - São Paulo, Mato Grosso
  18. Caperonia latifolia W + C Africa from Togo to Tanzania
  19. Caperonia latior - Paraguay
  20. Caperonia linearifolia - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Uruguay
  21. Caperonia lutea - Guyana
  22. Caperonia multicostata - E Brazil
  23. Caperonia neglecta - Veracruz, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia
  24. Caperonia palustris - widespread from SE + SC United States to Paraguay + N Argentina
  25. Caperonia paraguayensis - Paraguay
  26. Caperonia regnellii - Minas Gerais
  27. Caperonia rutenbergii - Madagascar
  28. Caperonia serrata - tropical Africa
  29. Caperonia similis - Amazonas in NW Brazil
  30. Caperonia stenophylla - Minas Gerais, 3 Guianas
  31. Caperonia stuhlmannii - Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal
  32. Caperonia subrotunda - Somalia
  33. Caperonia vellozoana - Rio de Janeiro
  34. Caperonia zaponzeta - Peru
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.