Lasiocroton

Lasiocroton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Adelieae
Genus: Lasiocroton
Griseb.

Lasiocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1859.[1][2] The genus is endemic to the West Indies.[3][4][5]

Species[3]
  1. Lasiocroton bahamensis Pax & K.Hoffm. - Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti
  2. Lasiocroton fawcettii Urb. - Jamaica
  3. Lasiocroton gracilis Britton & P.Wilson - SE Cuba
  4. Lasiocroton gutierrezii Jestrow - Cuba
  5. Lasiocroton harrisii Britton - Jamaica
  6. Lasiocroton macrophyllus (Sw.) Griseb. - Jamaica
  7. Lasiocroton microphyllus (A.Rich.) Jestrow - Cuba
formerly included[3]
  1. moved to other genera (Bernardia Croton Leucocroton)
  2. Lasiocroton cordifolius Britton & P.Wilson - Leucocroton cordifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Alain
  3. Lasiocroton prunifolius Griseb. - Croton punctatus Jacq.
  4. Lasiocroton subpeltatus Urb. - Leucocroton subpeltatus (Urb.) Alain
  5. Lasiocroton trelawniensis C.D.Adams - Bernardia trelawniensis (C.D.Adams) Jestrow & Proctor

References

  1. ↑ August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach. 1859. Flora of the British West Indian Islands 46
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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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