Neoscortechinia

Neoscortechinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Cheiloseae
Genus: Neoscortechinia
Hook.f. ex Pax
Type species
Alcinaeanthus philippinensis
Merr.
Synonyms[1]
  • Alcinaeanthus Merr.
  • Scortechinia Hook.f. 1887, illegitimate homonym, not Sacc. 1885 (a fungus)

Neoscortechinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897.[2][3] It is native to Southeast Asia and Papuasia.[1][4]

Species[1]
  1. Neoscortechinia angustifolia (Airy Shaw) Welzen - Sabah, Kalimantan
  2. Neoscortechinia forbesii (Hook.f.) S.Moore - New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
  3. Neoscortechinia kingii (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
  4. Neoscortechinia nicobarica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, W New Guinea
  5. Neoscortechinia philippinensis (Merr.) Welzen - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines
  6. Neoscortechinia sumatrensis S.Moore - W Malaysia, N. Sumatra, Simeuluë, Borneo

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Pax, Ferdinand Albin. 1897. in Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf & Prantl, Karl Anton Eugen, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachter. 1: 213
  3. ↑ Tropicos
  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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