Flueggea

Flueggea leucopyrus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Malpighiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamilia: Phyllanthoideae
Tribus: Phyllantheae
Genus: Flueggea
Species: F. acicularis – F. acidoton – F. anatolica – F. elliptica – F. flexuosa – F. gracilis – F. jullienii – F. leucopyrus – F. monticola – F. neowawraea – F. schuechiana – F. spirei – F. suffruticosa – F. tinctoria – F. verrucosa – F. virosa

Name

Flueggea Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4. 4: 637, 757 (1806).

• Type species: Flueggea leucopyrus Willd.

Synonyms

• Fluggea orth. var.
• Heterotypic
  • Acidoton P.Br., 1756 (Civ. Nat. Hist. Jam.:355.), nom. rej., non Acidoton Sw., 1788, nom. cons.
  • Bessera Spreng., 1815 (Pl. Min. Cogn. Pug. 2:90), nom. rej. non Bessera Schult.f., 1829 nom. cons.
    • Type species: Bessera inermis Spreng. (=Flueggea virosa subsp. virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle, 1836)
  • Geblera Fisch. & C.A.Mey., 1835 (Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1:28)
    • Type species: Geblera suffruticosa (Pall.) Fisch. & C. A. Mey. (=Flueggea suffruticosa (Pall.) Baill., 1858)
  • Colmeiroa Reut., 1842 (Bibl. Univers. Genève 38:215)
    • Type species: Colmeiroa buxifolia Reut. (=Flueggea tinctoria (L.) G.L.Webster, 1984)
  • Coilmeroa Endl., Gen. Pl., Suppl. 3: 99 (1843).
  • Pleiostemon Sond., 1850 (Linnaea 23:135)
    • Type species: Pleiostemon verrucosum (Thunb.) Sond. (=Flueggea verrucosa (Thunb.) G.L.Webster, 1984)
  • Securinega sect. Flueggea (Willd.) Müll.Arg., 1866 (in DC, Prodr. 15(2):448)
  • Villanova Pourr. ex Cutanda, Fl. Comp. Madrid: 595 (1861)
  • Neowawraea Rock, 1913 (Indig. Trees Haw. Isl.:243)
    • Type species: Neowawraea phyllanthoides Rock (=Flueggea neowawraea W.J.Hayden, 1987)
  • Richeriella Pax & K.Hoffm., 1922 (in Engl., Pflanzenr. IV.147.xv:30)
    • Type species: Richeriella gracilis (Merr.) Pax & K.Hoffm. (=Flueggea gracilis (Merr.) Petra Hoffm., 2006)

References

Primary references

• Willdenow, C. L. von (ed.). 1806. Species Plantarum, ed. 4. 4: 637.

Additional references

• Barker, C.P. & van Welzen, P.C. 2010. Flueggea (Euphorbiaceae s.l. or Phyllanthaceae) in Malesia. Systematic Botany 35(3): 541–551. DOI: 10.1600/036364410792495890 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Flueggea in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 14. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Flueggea. Published online. Accessed: February 14 2024.
• Hassler, M. 2024. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Flueggea. Accessed: 14 February 2024.
• Hassler, M. 2024. Flueggea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2024. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 14. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Bushweeds

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