Tetrorchidium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1841.[2][3] It is native to tropical portions of Africa and the Western Hemisphere.[1][4]
| Tetrorchidium | |
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| Tetrorchidium rubrivenium | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Crotonoideae |
| Tribe: | Adenoclineae |
| Subtribe: | Adenoclininae |
| Genus: | Tetrorchidium Poepp. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
- Species[1]
- Tetrorchidium andinum Müll.Arg. - Costa Rica, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Ecuador
- Tetrorchidium brevifolium Standl. & Steyerm. - S Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
- Tetrorchidium bulbipilosum Cuatrec. - Colombia, Ecuador
- Tetrorchidium congolense J.Léonard - Gabon, Congo, Zaire
- Tetrorchidium costaricense Huft - Costa Rica, Panama
- Tetrorchidium didymostemon (Baill.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - tropical Africa
- Tetrorchidium duckei Radcl.-Sm. & Govaerts - B Amazonas
- Tetrorchidium dusenii Pax & K.Hoffm. - Paraná in Brazil
- Tetrorchidium euryphyllum Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
- Tetrorchidium gabonense Breteler - Gabon
- Tetrorchidium hirsutum J.Murillo & K.Wurdack - Ecuador
- Tetrorchidium jamaicense Croizat - Jamaica
- Tetrorchidium macrophyllum Müll.Arg. - - Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
- Tetrorchidium microphyllum Huft - Panama
- Tetrorchidium ochroleucum Cuatrec. - Colombia, Ecuador
- Tetrorchidium oppositifolium (Pax) Pax Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia
- Tetrorchidium parvulum Müll.Arg. - SE Brazil
- Tetrorchidium popayanense Croizat - Colombia, Ecuador
- Tetrorchidium robledoanum Cuatrec. - Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
- Tetrorchidium rotundatum Standl. - Central America, C + S Mexico
- Tetrorchidium rubrivenium Poepp. - Costa Rica + Windward Islands south to N Argentina
- Tetrorchidium trichotocarpum McPherson - Panama
- Tetrorchidium ulugurense Verdc. - Morogoro Region in Tanzania
References
edit- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Poeppig, Eduard Friedrich. 1841 in Poeppig, Eduard Friedrich & Endlicher, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus, Nova genera ac species plantarum, quas in regno Chilensi Peruviano et in terra Amazonica 3: 23 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Tetrorchidium Poepp.
- ^ Murillo-A., J.C. (2009). El género Tetrorchidium (Euphorbiaceae) en Colombia y Ecuador. Caldasia 31: 213-225.