Uapaca
Uapaca | |
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Uapaca kirkiana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
Subfamily: | Antidesmatoideae |
Tribe: | Uapaceae |
Genus: | Uapaca Baill. |
Type species | |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Uapaca is a genus of plant, in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1858.[3][4] It is the only genus comprised in the tribe Uapaceae. The genus is native to Africa and Madagascar.[2][5][6][7] Uapaca is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.[8]
- species[2]
- - Nigeria, C Africa
- - NW Madagascar
- - NW Madagascar
- - Zaïre, Angola
- Uapaca bojeri - Madagascar
- - Madagascar
- - Madagascar
- - Zaïre, Angola
- - W + C Africa
- Uapaca heudelotii - W + C Africa
- - Katanga
- Uapaca kirkiana - E + C + S Africa
- - C + S Africa
- - E Madagascar
- - E Madagascar
- - W + C Africa
- - Gabon
- - E + C + S Africa
- - E + C Africa
- - W + C Africa
- - Katanga, Zambia, Malawi
- - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
- - E + C + S Africa
- - Nigeria, C Africa
- - E Madagascar
- - W + C Africa
- - Nigeria, C Africa
- formerly included[2]
moved Drypetes
- Uapaca griffithii -
References[]
- ^ lectotype designated by Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 18: 271 (1965)
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1858. Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées 595
- ^ Tropicos, Uapaca Baill.
- ^ McPherson, G. (2011). A review of Madagascan Uapaca (Euphorbiaceae s.l.). Adansonia , III, 33: 221-231.
- ^ Breteler, F.J. (2012). Flore du Gabon 43: 1-107. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
- ^ Breteler, F.J. (2013). Uapaca (Phyllanthaceae) in the Guineo-Congolian forest region: a synoptic revision. Plant ecology and evolution 146: 75-94.
- ^ Hoffmann, Petra; Kathriarachchi, Hashendra; Wurdack, Kenneth J. (2006). "A Phylogenetic Classification of Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato)". Kew Bulletin. 61 (1): 37–53. JSTOR 20443245.
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Categories:
- Flora of Africa
- Phyllanthaceae
- Phyllanthaceae genera
- Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon
- Dioecious plants
- Phyllanthaceae stubs