Grossera

Grossera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Aleuritideae
Subtribe: Grosserinae
Genus: Grossera
Pax
Synonyms[1]

Fourneaua Pierre ex Prain

Grossera is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1903.[2][3] It is native to Madagascar and to mainland tropical Africa.[1][4]

Species[1]
  1. Grossera angustifolia Barbera&Riina - Equatorial Guinea
  2. Grossera elongata Hutch. - Príncipe
  3. Grossera glomeratospicata J.Léonard - Zaïre
  4. Grossera macrantha Pax - Zaïre, Congo, Cameroon, Central African Rep
  5. Grossera major Pax - Cameroon
  6. Grossera multinervis J.Léonard - Zaïre, São Tomé
  7. Grossera paniculata Pax - Congo, Cameroon, Gabon
  8. Grossera perrieri Leandri - Madagascar
  9. Grossera vignei Hoyle - Ivory Coast, Ghana, Congo
formerly included[1]

moved to Cavacoa

  1. G. aurea - Cavacoa aurea
  2. G. baldwinii - Cavacoa baldwinii
  3. G. quintasii - Cavacoa quintasii

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Pax, Ferdinand Albin. 1903. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 33: 281-282 descriptions in Latin, commentary and range information in German
  3. ↑ Tropicos, Grossera 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.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/28/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.