Lasiocroton

Lasiocroton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Adelieae
Genus: Lasiocroton
Griseb.

Lasiocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1859. The genus is endemic to the West Indies. It is a member of the Leucocroton alliance, which also includes Leucocroton and Garciadelia. Species in this alliance are dioecious.

Species
  1. Lasiocroton bahamensis Pax & K.Hoffm. - Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti
  2. Lasiocroton fawcettii Urb. - Jamaica
  3. Lasiocroton gracilis Britton & P.Wilson - SE Cuba
  4. Lasiocroton gutierrezii Jestrow - Cuba
  5. Lasiocroton harrisii Britton - Jamaica
  6. Lasiocroton macrophyllus (Sw.) Griseb. - Jamaica
  7. Lasiocroton microphyllus (A.Rich.) Jestrow - Cuba
formerly included
  1. moved to other genera (Bernardia Croton Leucocroton)
  2. Lasiocroton cordifolius Britton & P.Wilson - Leucocroton cordifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Alain
  3. Lasiocroton prunifolius Griseb. - Croton punctatus Jacq.
  4. Lasiocroton subpeltatus Urb. - Leucocroton subpeltatus (Urb.) Alain
  5. Lasiocroton trelawniensis C.D.Adams - Bernardia trelawniensis (C.D.Adams) Jestrow & Proctor

References

  1. ↑ August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach. 1859. Flora of the British West Indian Islands 46
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. 1 2 3 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. ↑ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  6. ↑ Jestrow, Brett; Gutiérrez Amaro, Jorge; Francisco-Ortega, Javier (2012). "Islands within islands: A molecular phylogenetic study of the Leucocroton alliance (Euphorbiaceae) across the Caribbean Islands and within the serpentinite archipelago of Cuba". Journal of Biogeography. 39 (3): 452–464. Bibcode:2012JBiog..39..452J. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02607.x.