Tetrorchidium

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Tetrorchidium
Tetrorchidium rubrivenium.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Adenoclineae
Subtribe:
Genus: Tetrorchidium
Poepp.
Synonyms[1]
  • Hasskarlia Baill.
  • Tetrorchidiopsis

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]

Species[1]
  1. Müll.Arg. - Costa Rica, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Ecuador
  2. Tetrorchidium brevifolium Standl. & Steyerm. - S Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
  3. Cuatrec. - Colombia, Ecuador
  4. J.Léonard - Gabon, Congo, Zaire
  5. Huft - Costa Rica, Panama
  6. (Baill.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - tropical Africa
  7. Radcl.-Sm. & Govaerts - B Amazonas
  8. Pax & K.Hoffm. - Paraná in Brazil
  9. Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
  10. Breteler - Gabon
  11. J.Murillo & K.Wurdack - Ecuador
  12. Croizat - Jamaica
  13. Müll.Arg. - - Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
  14. Tetrorchidium microphyllum Huft - Panama
  15. Cuatrec. - Colombia, Ecuador
  16. (Pax) Pax Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia
  17. Müll.Arg. - SE Brazil
  18. Croizat - Colombia, Ecuador
  19. Cuatrec. - Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
  20. Standl. - Central America, C + S Mexico
  21. Poepp. - Costa Rica + Windward Islands south to N Argentina
  22. McPherson - Panama
  23. Tetrorchidium ulugurense Verdc. - Morogoro Region in Tanzania

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ Tropicos, Tetrorchidium Poepp.
  4. ^ Murillo-A., J.C. (2009). El género Tetrorchidium (Euphorbiaceae) en Colombia y Ecuador. Caldasia 31: 213-225.
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