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]
| Alchornea | |
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| Alchornea sicca[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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] | |
- Species[2]
- Alchornea acutifolia - Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
- Alchornea alnifolia - Madagascar, Mayotte
- Alchornea anamariae - Peru, Bolivia
- Alchornea androgyna - N Vietnam
- Alchornea annamica - Vietnam
- Alchornea aquifolia - Queensland, New South Wales
- Alchornea bogotensis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea brittonii - Peru, Bolivia
- Alchornea castaneifolia - South America
- Alchornea chiapasana - Veracruz, Chiapas
- Alchornea coelophylla - Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea cordifolia - tropical Africa
- Alchornea costaricensis - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea davidii - S China
- Alchornea discolor - South America
- Alchornea floribunda - tropical Africa
- Alchornea fluviatilis - South America
- Alchornea glabra - Anhui
- Alchornea glandulosa - South + Central America
- Alchornea grandiflora - South + Central America
- Alchornea grandis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
- Alchornea guatemalensis - Baja Verapaz
- Alchornea hilariana - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Alchornea hirtella - Africa
- Alchornea humbertii - Madagascar
- Alchornea hunanensis - Hunan
- Alchornea integrifolia - Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia
- Alchornea latifolia - Mexico, West Indies, C + S America
- Alchornea laxiflora - Africa
- Alchornea liukiuensis - Taiwan, Nansei-shoto
- Alchornea lojaensis - Ecuador
- Alchornea megalophylla - Colombia, Panama
- Alchornea mildbraedii - Cameroon
- Alchornea mollis - E Himalayas
- Alchornea occidentalis - C Africa
- Alchornea parviflora - Thailand, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
- Alchornea pearcei - Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea perrieri - Madagascar
- Alchornea rhodophylla - Penang
- Alchornea rugosa - SE Asia, S China, Assam, Queensland, Papuasia
- Alchornea scandens - Vietnam
- Alchornea sicca - Luzon, Indochina
- Alchornea sidifolia - S Brazil, Misiones
- Alchornea tachirensis - Venezuela, Colombia
- Alchornea tiliifolia - SE Asia, E Himalayas
- Alchornea trewioides - S China, N Vietnam
- Alchornea triplinervia - South + Central America, Trinidad
- Alchornea ulmifolia - Ryukyu Islands
- Alchornea vaniotii - Yunnan
- Alchornea websteri - Ecuador
- Alchornea yambuyaensis - SC Africa
- formerly included
moved to other genera (Aparisthmium Cleidion Cnesmone Discocleidion Discoglypremna Necepsia Neoscortechinia Orfilea Sampantaea Trigonostemon Wetria )
- A. amentiflora - Sampantaea amentiflora
- A. arborea - Neoscortechinia nicobarica
- A. blumeana - Wetria insignis
- A. caloneura - Discoglypremna caloneura
- A. castaneifolia - Necepsia castaneifolia
- A. cordata (A.Juss.) Müll.Arg. 1866 not Benth. 1849 - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. coriacea (Baill.) Müll.Arg. 1865 not Ule 1909 - Orfilea coriacea
- A. cuneata - Trigonostemon heteranthus
- A. cuneifolia - Trigonostemon heteranthus
- A. latifolia Klotzsch not Sw. 1788 - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. macrophylla - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. madagascariensis - Necepsia castaneifolia
- A. mairei - Cnesmone mairei
- A. mappa - Macaranga mappa
- A. martiana - Conceveiba martiana
- A. multispicata - Orfilea multispicata
- A. oblongifolia - Cleidion castaneifolium
- A. orinocensis - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. rufescens - Discocleidion rufescens
References
edit- ^ illustration circa 1880, from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas
- ^ a b c "Alchornea in". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
- ^ Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 98 in Latin
- ^ Alchornea in PlantList
- ^ 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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