Biology:Mildbraedia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Mildbraedia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Crotoneae
Genus: Mildbraedia
Pax
Synonyms[1]
  • Neojatropha Pax
  • Plesiatropha Pierre ex Hutch.

Mildbraedia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1909.[2][3] The entire genus is native to Africa.[1][4]

Species[1]
  1. Mildbraedia carpinifolia – Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  2. Mildbraedia klaineana – Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cabinda, Gabon
  3. Mildbraedia paniculata – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia
formerly included[1]

moved to Croton

  • Mildbraedia balboana - Croton alienus

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Pax, Ferdinand Albin. 1909. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 43: 319-320 descriptions in Latin, commentary in German
  3. Tropicos, Mildbraedia Pax
  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.

Wikidata ☰ Q6850895 entry