Microstachys

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Genus of plants

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::summary Genus of plants ::

|image = Microstachys chamaelea.jpg |image_caption = Microstachys chamaelea |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Microstachys |authority = A.Juss. |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = *Cnemidostachys Mart.

  • Elachocroton F.Muell.
  • Tragiopsis H.Karst.

Microstachys is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to tropical Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Papuasia, Mesoamerica, the West Indies, and South America.

;Species |# Microstachys acetosella - Angola, Zambia

  1. Microstachys bidentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela
  2. Microstachys chamaelea - W Africa, India, Sri Lanka, S China, Indochina, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Solomon Islands, N Australia
  3. Microstachys corniculata - from NW Mexico + West Indies south to Paraguay
  4. Microstachys dalzielii - W Africa
  5. Microstachys daphnoides - Bahia, Minas Gerais, Goiás
  6. Microstachys ditassoides - Brazil
  7. Microstachys faradianensis - W Africa
  8. Microstachys glandulosa - Minas Gerais
  9. Microstachys heterodoxa - Bahia
  10. Microstachys hispida - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, N Argentina
  11. Microstachys marginata - Bahia, Minas Gerais
  12. Microstachys nana - Paraná
  13. Microstachys nummularifolia - Minas Gerais
  14. Microstachys revoluta - Bahia
  15. Microstachys serrulata - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
  16. Microstachys stipulacea - Uruguay, S Brazil
  17. Microstachys uleana - Bahia }}

;formerly included moved to other genera (Micrococca Sebastiania )

References

References

  1. Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de. 1824. De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 48–49
  2. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40019459 Tropicos ''Microstachys'' A. Juss.]
  3. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=127624 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
  4. [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=120654 Flora of China, Vol. 11 Page 282 地杨桃属 di yang tao shu ''Microstachys'' A. Jussieu, Euphorb. Gen. 48. Fe. 1824. ]
  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.

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