Amyrea

Amyrea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Bernardieae
Genus: Amyrea
Leandri

Amyrea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1941. [1][2] It is native to Madagascar and to nearby Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean.[3][4]

Species[3]
  1. Amyrea celastroides Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  2. Amyrea eucleoides Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  3. Amyrea gracillima Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  4. Amyrea grandifolia Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  5. Amyrea humbertii Leandri - Mayotte, Madagascar
  6. Amyrea lancifolia Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  7. Amyrea maprouneifolia Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  8. Amyrea myrtifolia Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  9. Amyrea remotiflora Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar
  10. Amyrea sambiranensis Leandri - Madagascar
  11. Amyrea stenocarpa Radcl.-Sm. - Madagascar

References

  1. ↑ Leandri, Jacques Désiré. 1941. Notulae Systematicae. Herbier du Museum de Paris 9: 168 descriptions in Latin, commentary in French
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. 1 2 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.
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