Euphorbiaceae

Caperonia A.St.-Hil.

First published in Hist. Pl. Remarq. Brésil: 244 (1825)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical America, Tropical & S. Africa, Madagascar.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Leeward Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Uruguay, Venezuela, Windward Is., Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Malaya, Marianas, Mississippi, Texas

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • 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.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euph. 6: 27 (1912).
  • —F.T.A. 6, 1: 829

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Hist. Pl. Remarq. Brésil: 244 (1824).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • G.P. 3(1): 304 (1880)
  • Hist. Pl. Rem. Brés. Par.: 244 (1824)
  • J. Léon. in B.J.B.B. 26: 313 (1956)
  • Muell. Arg. in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 751 (1866)
  • Pax in E.P. IV. 147(6): 27 (1912)
  • Prain in F.T.A. 6(1): 829 (1912)
  • in F.C.B. 8(1): 166 (1962)

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2013 Gorts-van Rijin, A.R.A., et al. [370] Guyana K000716249 Yes
Aug 1, 1992 Gardner [3602] Brazil K000600399 Unknown Type Material Yes
Jan 1, 1990 Hostmann [1084] Suriname K000600265 Type Yes
Feb 1, 1989 Maas, P.J.M., et al. [7723] Guyana K000716246 Yes
Dec 14, 1955 Davey, J.T. [134] Mali K000385831 No
Thulin, M.; Razafindraibe, H. [11888] Madagascar K001604039 Yes
Saar, E. [5185] Brazil K001206861 Yes
Hage, J.L. [1733] Brazil K001206862 Yes
Hamilton, W.D. [192] Brazil K001206863 Yes
Davey, J.T. [190] Mali K000385830 No

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Somalia

    • Flora of Somalia
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images