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Genus of flowering plants

Discoclaoxylon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Acalypheae
Subtribe: Claoxylinae
Genus: Discoclaoxylon
(Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.

Discoclaoxylon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1914. It is native to western and central Africa, including islands in the Gulf of Guinea.

Species
  1. Discoclaoxylon hexandrum (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda
  2. Discoclaoxylon occidentale (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - São Tomé
  3. Discoclaoxylon pedicellare (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Bioko (Cameroon)
  4. Discoclaoxylon pubescens (Pax & K.Hoffm.) Exell - Annobón (Equatorial Guinea)

References

  1. Pax, Ferdinand Albin, Hoffmann, Käthe, & Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf. 1914. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 147 VII(Heft 63): 137
  2. Tropicos, genus Discoclaoxylon
  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. Barberá, P., Velayos, M. & Aedo, C. (2013). Annotated checklist and identification keys of the Acalyphoideae (Euphorbiaceae) of Equatorial Guinea (Annobón, Bioko and Río Muni). Phytotaxa 140: 1-25.
Taxon identifiers
Discoclaoxylon


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