Biology:Brasiliocroton

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Brasiliocroton
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Crotoneae
Genus: Brasiliocroton
P.E.Berry & Cordeiro
Species:
B. mamoninha
Binomial name
Brasiliocroton mamoninha
P.E.Berry & Cordeiro

Brasiliocroton is a monotypic plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae. The sole species is Brasiliocroton mamoninha. The plant was first described in 2005 from lowland forests in eastern and northeastern Brazil , whence its name.[1]

References

  1. Paul E. Berry; Inês Cordeiro; Alex C. Wiedenhoeft; Maria Amélia Vitorino-Cruz; Letícia Ribes de Lima (2005). "Brasiliocroton, a New Crotonoid Genus of Euphorbiaceae s.s. from Eastern Brazil". Systematic Botany 30 (2): 357–365. doi:10.1600/0363644054223585. 

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