Bridelia is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.[3][4][5] It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[2][6][7]
| Bridelia | |
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| Bridelia retusa[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
| Subfamily: | Phyllanthoideae |
| Tribe: | Bridelieae |
| Subtribe: | Pseudolachnostylidinae |
| Genus: | Bridelia Willd. |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Bridelia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus.
The genus Bridelia was named in the honor of Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow.[3]
Species
editAs of February 2023[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[8]
- Bridelia adusta – Sarawak, Sabah
- Bridelia affinis – Yunnan, Hainan, Thailand
- Bridelia assamica – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
- Bridelia atroviridis – tropical Africa
- Bridelia balansae – Nansei-shoto, S China, Indochina, Taiwan
- Bridelia brideliifolia – E + C + SE Africa
- Bridelia cathartica – C + S Africa
- Bridelia cinnamomea – Andaman Is, S Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia
- Bridelia curtisii – Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Sumatra
- Bridelia duvigneaudii – C Africa
- Bridelia eranalis – Zaïre
- Bridelia erapensis – Papua New Guinea
- Bridelia exaltata – Queensland, New South Wales
- Bridelia ferruginea – tropical Africa
- Bridelia finalis – Queensland
- Bridelia fordii Hemsl. – S China to Hainan
- Bridelia glauca – S + SE + E Asia, Papuasia
- Bridelia grandis – W + C Africa
- Bridelia harmandii – Indochina
- Bridelia insulana – SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, Micronesia
- Bridelia leichhardtii – Queensland
- Bridelia macrocarpa – Maluku, New Guinea
- Bridelia micrantha – tropical – S Africa, Réunion
- Bridelia microphylla – Somalia
- Bridelia mollis – southern Africa
- Bridelia montana – India
- Bridelia moonii – Sri Lanka
- Bridelia ndellensis – C Africa
- Bridelia nicobarica – Nicobar Islands
- Bridelia oligantha – Papua New Guinea
- Bridelia ovata Decne. – Indo-China to W. Malesia
- Bridelia parvifolia – Hainan, Vietnam
- Bridelia pervilleana – Madagascar
- Bridelia pustulata – Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
- Bridelia retusa – S China, S + SE Asia
- Bridelia rhomboidalis – Madagascar
- Bridelia ripicola – C Africa
- Bridelia scleroneura – Yemen, tropical Africa
- Bridelia sikkimensis – Himalayas
- Bridelia somalensis – Somalia
- Bridelia speciosa – W Africa
- Bridelia stipularis – S + E + SE Asia
- Bridelia taitensis – Kenya
- Bridelia tenuifolia – Angola, Namibia
- Bridelia tomentosa – S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, Australia
- Bridelia triplocarya – Papua New Guinea
- Bridelia tulasneana – Madagascar
- Bridelia verrucosa – NE India, Himalayas
- Bridelia whitmorei – Pahang
- Bridelia wilksii – Gabon
Formerly included
editMoved to other genera (Aporosa, Cleistanthus, Damnacanthus, Phyllanthus, Scleropyrum).[2]
- B. acuminata - Phyllanthus triandrus
- B. attenuata - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
- B. buxifolia - Cleistanthus stipitatus
- B. chartacea - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
- B. collina - Cleistanthus collinus
- B. diversifolia - Cleistanthus diversifolius
- B. heterantha - Phyllanthus glomerulatus
- B. horrida - Scleropyrum pentandrum[9]
- B. laurina - Cleistanthus stipitatus
- B. loureiroi - Cleistanthus monoicus
- B. monoica - Cleistanthus monoicus
- B. oblongifolius - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
- B. patula - Cleistanthus patulus
- B. polystachya - Cleistanthus polystachyus
- B. rufa - Cleistanthus rufus
- B. rugosa - Aporosa lunata
- B. sinica - Phyllanthus hohenackeri
- B. spinosa DC. 1833 not (Roxb.) Willd. 1806 - Damnacanthus indicus
- B. stipitata - Cleistanthus stipitatus
- B. stipularis Hook. & Arn. 1837 not (L.) Blume 1826 - Cleistanthus stipularis
Bridelia retusa bark
Bridelia retusa leaves
References
edit- ^ 1874 illustration, tab. 55 of D. Brandis, Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India, 1874
- ^ a b c Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ a b Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 978-979 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos
- ^ Dressler, S. 1996. Proposal to conserve the name Bridelia (Euphorbiaceae) with a conserved spelling. Taxon 45: 337–338
- ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 174 土蜜树属 tu mi shu shu Bridelia Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4: 978. 1806.
- ^ "Bridelia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
- ^ The Plant List, Bridelia horrida Dillwyn