Biology:Clutia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Clutia
Cluytia ericoides - Edwards.jpg
Clutia ericoides[2]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Peraceae
Genus: Clutia
Boerh. ex L. 1753
Type species
Clutia pulchella
L. 1753[1]
Synonyms[3]
  • Altora Adans.
  • Cluytia Aiton spelling variation
  • Clytia Stokes spelling variation
  • Cratochwilia Neck.
  • Middelbergia Schinz ex Pax

Clutia is a plant genus of the family Peraceae. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa and to the Arabian Peninsula.[4][3][5]

Species[3]
formerly included[3]

moved to other genera (Bridelia Cleistanthus Croton Ditaxis Lachnostylis Phyllanthus Pseudophyllanthus Sauropus Trigonostemon )


References

  1. lectotype designated by M. L. Green in Hitchcock et M. L. Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. 193 (1929).
  2. 1824 illustration From: The botanical register by Sydenham Teast Edwards and others. London, James Ridgeway, 1824, volume 10 (plate 779).
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1042
  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.

Wikidata ☰ Q5136766 entry