Biology:Sebastiania

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Sebastiania
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Sebastiania commersoniana
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Euphorbioideae
Tribe: Hippomaneae
Subtribe: Hippomaninae
Genus: Sebastiania
Spreng.
Synonyms[1]
  • Adenogyne Klotzsch
  • Clonostachys Klotzsch

Sebastiania is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1821.[2][3] It is native to North and South America from Arizona and the West Indies south to Uruguay.[1][4][5][6][7][8]

Species

(As of 2020) Kew's Plants of the World Online accepts 60 species in the genus Sebastiania.[9] Many species formerly included in this genus are now placed in genera such as Actinostemon, Bonania, Chrysanthellum, Dendrocousinsia, Ditaxis, Ditrysinia, Gymnanthes, Microstachys, Phyllanthus, Sapium, and Stillingia.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Sprengel, Curt Polycarp Joachim. 1821. Neue Entdeckungen im Ganzen Umfang der Pflanzenkunde 2: 118, pl. 3 in Latin
  3. Tropicos Sebastiania Spreng.
  4. CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico D.F.
  5. García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. A. Meave. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria
  6. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  7. Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
  8. Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75(3): 1087–1144
  9. "Sebastiania Spreng.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327717-2. Retrieved 29 September 2020. 

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