Acidoton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788.[2][3] It is native to the Greater Antilles, Central America, and tropical South America.[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
| Acidoton | |
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| Male flower of Acidoton urens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Acalyphoideae |
| Tribe: | Plukenetieae |
| Subtribe: | Tragiinae |
| Genus: | Acidoton Sw. 1788, conserved name, not P. Browne 1756 |
| Type species | |
| Acidoton urens | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
- Species[1]
- Acidoton haitiensis Alain - Haiti
- Acidoton lanceolatus Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
- Acidoton microphyllus Urb. - Hispaniola
- Acidoton nicaraguensis (Hemsl.) G.L.Webster - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
- Acidoton urens Sw. - Jamaica
- Acidoton variifolius Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola
- Formerly included[1]
moved to other genera (Flueggea Jablonskia Margaritaria Meineckia Securinega )
- A. acidothamnus - Flueggea acidoton
- A. baillonianus - Margaritaria discoidea var. triplosphaera
- A. buxifolius - Flueggea tinctoria
- A. congestus - Jablonskia congesta
- A. durissimus - Securinega durissima
- A. ellipticus - Flueggea elliptica
- A. flexuosus - Flueggea flexuosa
- A. flueggeoides - Flueggea suffruticosa
- A. griseus - Flueggea virosa
- A. hilarianus - Meineckia neogranatensis subsp. hilariana
- A. leucopyrus - Flueggea leucopyrus
- A. obovatus - Flueggea virosa
- A. phyllanthoides - Flueggea virosa
- A. ramiflorus - Flueggea suffruticosa
- A. schuechianus - Flueggea schuechiana
- A. trichogynus - Meineckia trichogynis
- A. virosus - Flueggea virosa
References
edit- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 83 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, genus Acidoton Sw.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
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- ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
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