Neoboutonia

Neoboutonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Aleuritideae
Subtribe: Neoboutoniinae
Genus: Neoboutonia
Airy Shaw
Type species
Neoboutonia africana (syn of N. melleri)[1][2]
Airy Shaw

Neoboutonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864.[3][2] It is the only genus in subtribe Neoboutoniinae, and native to tropical Africa.[1][4][5] [6][7]

Species[1]
  1. Neoboutonia macrocalyx Pax - Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  2. Neoboutonia mannii Benth. & Hook.f. - tropical Africa from Liberia to Mozambique
  3. Neoboutonia melleri (Müll.Arg.) Prain - tropical Africa from Nigeria to Mozambique

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. 1 2 Tropicos, Neoboutonia Müll. Arg.
  3. ↑ Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1864. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 2: 336
  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. ↑ Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
  6. ↑ Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
  7. ↑ Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.


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