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Acalyphoideae

(Subfamily)

Overview

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The Acalyphoideae is a subfamily belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae.1]

See also

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  1. ^ Gurcharan Singh (2004). Plants Systematics: An Integrated Approach. Enfield, N.H: Science Publishers. ISBN 1-57808-351-6. 

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Taxonomy

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The Subfamily Acalyphoideae is a member of the Family Euphorbiaceae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Acalyphoideae:

The Subfamily Acalyphoideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Acalypha

Acalypha is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole genus of the subtribe Acalyphinae. With 450 to 500 species of herbs and shrubs, the genus is only behind Euphorbia, Croton and Phyllanthus in term of Malpighiales diversity. The common names are copperleaves or three-seeded mercuries. [more]

Acanthocalyx

Acanthocalyx is a genus of about three species of vegetation in the family Dipsacaceae, sometimes included in Morinaceae, native to Sino-Himalayan Region. [more]

Adelia

Adelia is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, subfamily Acalyphoideae. The name is derived from the Greek words a (a), meaning "not", and d???? (delos), meaning "visible." It refers to the difficulties Linnaeus experienced interpreting the genus. [more]

Adriana

Adriana is a Latin name and Feminine form of Adrian. [more]

Agrostistachys

Agrostistachys is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 9 species, present from India to West Malesia. 5 species are found in Malesia. [more]

Alchornea

Alchornea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 70 tropical species. [more]

Amperea

Amperea is a plant species of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Argomuellera

Argomuellera is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Argythamnia

Argythamnia, commonly known as Silverbushes, are a group of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Bernardia

Bernardia is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Blumeodendron

Blumeodendron is a of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 6 species found in Myanmar, the Andamans and Malesia. [more]

Bocquillonia

Bocquillonia is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae endemic to New Caledonia. It has 14 species. [more]

Caperonia

False crotons ( Caperonia) are a group of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. There are 60 species found in tropical America and tropical Africa. [more]

Caryodendron

Caryodendron is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Chiropetalum

Chiropetalum is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 25 species, found from Mexico to South America. [more]

Chrozophora

Chrozophora is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole genus comprised in the subtribe Chrozophorinae. It comprises 11 or 12 species, which are monoecious herbs or undershrubs. They are found from Africa and the Mediterranean to Southeast Asia. [more]

Claoxylon

Claoxylon is a flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, comprising dioecious subshrubs to small trees. The genus comprises about 80 species, distributed in paleotropical areas: Madagascar through South and Southeast Asia, Malesia to Melanesia, Hawaii, and Australia. Half of the species are in Malesia. According to a molecular phylogenetic study by Wurdack, Hoffmann & Chase (2005), Claoxylon is sister to Erythrococca (50 species, Africa), and together they form the top of a Hennigian comb-like phylogeny. [more]

Cleidion

Cleidion is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 25 species, which are pantropical. [more]

Coleonema

Coleonema is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae. The eight known species are all from the western Cape Province of South Africa. In Australia, where they are cultivated as garden ornamentals, they are often incorrectly referred to as Diosma. [more]

Conceveiba

Conceveiba is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Dalechampia

Dalechampia is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monogeneric subtribe Dalechampiinae. It comprises about 120 species, all found in lowland tropical areas (below 2,000 m ASL) and especially in the Americas. There are ca. 90 species in the Americas and ca. 10 species each, in Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. Additional new species are still being described and several are very rare and at risk of extinction. [more]

Dicoelia

Dicoelia is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only member of its tribe (Dicoelieae). It comprises 3 species, found in West Malesia. They are shrubs or small trees. [more]

Ditaxis

Ditaxis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. Its name comes from Greek dis ("two") and taxis ("rank"), referring to the stamens which are in two whorls. [more]

Dysopsis

Dysopsis glechomoides is a species of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole species of its genus (Dysopsis) and subtribe (Dysopsidinae). [more]

Epiprinus

Epiprinus is a of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 6 species, present from Assam to West Malesia. [more]

Erismanthus

Erismanthus is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 2 genera, found from Malesia to China. [more]

Koilodepas

Koilodepas is a of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 10 species, found from India to Malesia. Half of these species are found in Malesia. [more]

Leucocroton

Leucocroton is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Macaranga

Macaranga is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae. Native to Africa, Australasia, Asia and the South Pacific, the genus comprises over 300 different species. These plants are noted for being . Macaranga species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus. Macaranga species often form symbioses with ant (Formicidae) species (particularly Crematogaster ants of the subgenus Decacrema) because they have hollow stems that can serve as nesting space and occasionally provide nectar. The trees benefit because the ants attack herbivorous insects and either drive them away or feed on them. [more]

Mallotus

Mallotus may refer to: [more]

Mercurialis

Monotaxis

Monotaxis is a plant species of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Moultonianthus

Moultonianthus leembruggianus is a species of the family Euphorbiaceae, of the monotypic genus Moultonianthus. The species is uniquely found in Sumatra and Borneo. [more]

Omphalea

Omphalea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus of its tribe (Omphaleae). It comprises 17 species, all of which are tropical shrubs, trees or lianas. Twelve of them are native to the Americas, 4 are endemic to Madagascar and 1 to Africa. They have monoecious, apetalous flowers and fleshy fruits with hard centers. [more]

Plukenetia

Plukenetia is a of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 15 species, found from Africa to Malesia. [more]

Pycnocoma

Pycnocoma is a of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. [more]

Ricinus

The castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It belongs to a monotypic genus, Ricinus, and subtribe, Ricininae. The evolution of castor and its relation to other species are currently being studied. [more]

Speranskia

Speranskia is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole member of the subtribe Speranskiinae. [more]

Syndyophyllum

Syndyophyllum is a genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, comprising 2 species. One of them is found in North Sumatra and Borneo, the other in New Guinea. [more]

Tragia

Tragia is a of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises about one hundred species found in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. Plants in this genus are sometimes known as noseburns. [more]

Trewia

At least 6 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Trewia.

More info about the Genus Trewia may be found here.

References

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  1. ^ Gurcharan Singh (2004). Plants Systematics: An Integrated Approach. Enfield, N.H: Science Publishers. ISBN 1-57808-351-6. 

Sources

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Last Revised: August 24, 2012
2012/08/24 13:46:11