Bocquillonia

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Bocquillonia
Bocquillonia castaneifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Alchorneae
Subtribe: Alchorneinae
Genus: Bocquillonia
Baill.
Synonyms[1]

Bocquillonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1862.[2][3] The entire genus is endemic to New Caledonia (including smaller islands that are part of the territory).[1][4] Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that Bocquillonia is nested in Alchornea.[5]

Species[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1862. Adansonia 2: 225-227 in Latin
  3. ^ Tropicos
  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. ^ Wurdack, K. J., P. Hoffmann, and M. W. Chase (2005). Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Uniovulate Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiaceae Sensu Stricto) Using Plastid rbcL and trnL-F DNA Sequences.” American Journal of Botany 92(8): 1397–1420.