Neoscortechinia

Neoscortechinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Acalyphoideae
Tribe:	Cheiloseae
Genus:	Neoscortechinia; Hook.f. ex Pax
Type species
	Alcinaeanthus philippinensis; Merr.
Synonyms
	Alcinaeanthus Merr.; Scortechinia Hook.f. 1887, illegitimate homonym, not Sacc. 1885 (a fungus);

Neoscortechinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897.^[2]^[3] It is native to Southeast Asia and Papuasia.^[1]^[4]

Neoscortechinia angustifolia (Airy Shaw) Welzen - Sabah, Kalimantan
Neoscortechinia forbesii (Hook.f.) S.Moore - New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
Neoscortechinia kingii (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
Neoscortechinia nicobarica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, W New Guinea
Neoscortechinia philippinensis (Merr.) Welzen - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines
Neoscortechinia sumatrensis S.Moore - W Malaysia, N. Sumatra, Simeuluë, Borneo

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Pax, Ferdinand Albin. 1897. in Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf & Prantl, Karl Anton Eugen, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachter. 1: 213
^ Tropicos
^ 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.

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