Glochidion
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| Glochidion | |
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| Glochidion ramiflorum | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Phyllanthaceae |
| Tribe: | Phyllantheae |
| Subtribe: | Flueggeinae |
| Genus: | Glochidion J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. |
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About 300, see text |
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Glochidion are a taxon of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands. Glochidion species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus eximia and Endoclita damor.
Species include:
- Glochidion bourdillonii
- Glochidion christophersenii
- Glochidion carrickii
- Glochidion comitum
- Glochidion eriocarpum
- Glochidion ferdinandi
- Glochidion grantii
- Glochidion insulare
- Glochidion johnstonei
- Glochidion lanceolarium
- Glochidion longfieldiae
- Glochidion manono
- Glochidion marchionicum
- Glochidion moorei
- Glochidion myrtifolium
- Glochidion nadeaudii
- Glochidion papenooense
- Glochidion pauciflorum
- Glochidion pitcairnense
- Glochidion puberum
- Glochidion raivavense
- Glochidion ramiflorum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
- Glochidion rapaense
- Glochidion seemannii Müll.-Arg.
- Glochidion sisparense
- Glochidion stylosum
- Glochidion symingtonii
- Glochidion taitense
- Glochidion temehaniense
- Glochidion tomentosum
- Glochidion tooviianum
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