Uapaca

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Uapaca
Uapaca kirkiana 1.jpg
Uapaca kirkiana
Scientific classification e
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]
  • Canariastrum Engl.
  • Gymnocarpus Thouars ex Baill.
  • Aapaca Metzdorff

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]
  1. - Nigeria, C Africa
  2. - NW Madagascar
  3. - NW Madagascar
  4. - Zaïre, Angola
  5. Uapaca bojeri - Madagascar
  6. - Madagascar
  7. - Madagascar
  8. - Zaïre, Angola
  9. - W + C Africa
  10. Uapaca heudelotii - W + C Africa
  11. - Katanga
  12. Uapaca kirkiana - E + C + S Africa
  13. - C + S Africa
  14. - E Madagascar
  15. - E Madagascar
  16. - W + C Africa
  17. - Gabon
  18. - E + C + S Africa
  19. - E + C Africa
  20. - W + C Africa
  21. - Katanga, Zambia, Malawi
  22. - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
  23. - E + C + S Africa
  24. - Nigeria, C Africa
  25. - E Madagascar
  26. - W + C Africa
  27. - Nigeria, C Africa
formerly included[2]

moved Drypetes

  • Uapaca griffithii -

References[]

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Airy Shaw, Kew Bull. 18: 271 (1965)
  2. ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1858. Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées 595
  4. ^ Tropicos, Uapaca Baill.
  5. ^ McPherson, G. (2011). A review of Madagascan Uapaca (Euphorbiaceae s.l.). Adansonia , III, 33: 221-231.
  6. ^ Breteler, F.J. (2012). Flore du Gabon 43: 1-107. Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.
  7. ^ Breteler, F.J. (2013). Uapaca (Phyllanthaceae) in the Guineo-Congolian forest region: a synoptic revision. Plant ecology and evolution 146: 75-94.
  8. ^ 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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