Thecacoris

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Genus of flowering plants

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::summary Genus of flowering plants ::

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Thecacoris is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1821. It is native to tropical Africa and Madagascar. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants, although it may rarely be monoecious.

;Species

  1. Thecacoris cometia - Madagascar
  2. Thecacoris glabroglandulosa - Gabon, Zaïre
  3. Thecacoris grandifolia - Gabon, Cameroon
  4. Thecacoris humbertii - Madagascar
  5. Thecacoris lancifolia - Gabon
  6. Thecacoris latistipula - Zaïre
  7. Thecacoris leptobotrya - C Africa
  8. Thecacoris lucida - C Africa
  9. Thecacoris madagascariensis - Madagascar
  10. Thecacoris manniana - Sao Tomé
  11. Thecacoris micrantha - Ivory Coast, Ghana
  12. Thecacoris perrieri - Madagascar
  13. Thecacoris spathulifolia - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar
  14. Thecacoris stenopetala - C + W Africa
  15. Thecacoris trichogyne - C Africa
  16. Thecacoris usambarensis - Kenya, Tanzania
  17. Thecacoris viridis - C Africa

;formerly included moved to other genera: Maesobotrya Spondianthus

  1. Thecacoris glabrata - Maesobotrya glabrata
  2. Thecacoris trillesii - Spondianthus preussii subsp. glaber

References

References

  1. Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de. 1824. De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 12, 105
  2. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40012789 Tropicos, ''Thecacoris'' A. Juss]
  3. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=203538 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.
  5. Breteler, F.J. (2011). ''Thecacoris'', including ''Cyathogyne'' (Phyllanthaceae), in West Africa: Generic delimination, description of a new species, and a synopsis of all West African species. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 68: 343-350.
  6. (2006). "A Phylogenetic Classification of Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato)". Kew Bulletin.
  7. (2004). "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Phyllanthaceae (Phyllanthoideae pro parte, Euphorbiaceae sensu lato) using plastid RBCL DNA sequences". American Journal of Botany.

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