Hippomane

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Genus of flowering plants

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::summary Genus of flowering plants ::

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  • Mancinella Tussac

Hippomane is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, Florida, Venezuela, Colombia, and Galápagos.

Derivation of name

The name of the genus references the Greek name hippomanes (applied by Theophrastus to an unidentified plant said to poison horses, sending them mad) - this being a compound of the Greek elements ἵππος (= grc) horse and μανία (= mania) insanity / frenzy - hence "sending horses insane".

Species

;Accepted Species

  1. Hippomane horrida Urb. & Ekman. - Barahona in Dominican Rep
  2. Hippomane mancinella L. - West Indies, Mexico, Central America, Florida Keys, Venezuela, Colombia, Galápagos
  3. Hippomane spinosa L. - Hispaniola

;Species formerly included moved to other genera: Sapium

  1. Hippomane aucuparia - Sapium glandulosum
  2. Hippomane biglandulosa - Sapium glandulosum
  3. Hippomane fruticosa - Sapium glandulosum
  4. Hippomane glandulosa - Sapium glandulosum
  5. Hippomane zeocca - Sapium glandulosum}}

References

References

  1. lectotype designated by M. L. Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. 195 (1929)
  2. [https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=99362 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
  3. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40026296 Tropicos, ''Hippomane'' L.]
  4. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359212#page/633/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1191-1192] in Latin
  5. 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.
  6. González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394.
  7. Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
  8. Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144.
  9. [https://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Hippomane%20mancinella.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]
  10. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2012). ''CRC World dictionary of medicinal and poisonous plants: common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms and etymology''. CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group. {{ISBN. 978-1-4398-9445-3 Volume III E-L pps. 484-5.

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