Discocarpus Explained

Discocarpus is a genus of the plant family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1841.[1] [2] It is native to northern South America.[3] [4] [5] [6] It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.[7]

Species[3]
  1. Discocarpus essequeboensis Klotzsch - Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Amapá), Venezuela (Amazonas), Guyana (Essequibo, Rupununi), Suriname, French Guiana[3] [8]
  2. Discocarpus gentryi S.M.Hayden - S Venezuela (Amazonas), Peru (Loreto), N Brazil[3] [9]
  3. Discocarpus pedicellatus Fiaschi & Cordeiro - State of Bahia in Brazil[3]
  4. Discocarpus spruceanus Müll.Arg. - Venezuela (Amazonas), Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso), Suriname (Sipaliwini), Bolivia (Santa Cruz)[3] [10]
Formerly included[3] moved to other genera: Chaetocarpus Lachnostylis
  1. Discocarpus duckeanus Jabl. - Chaetocarpus echinocarpus (Baill.) Ducke
  2. Discocarpus hirtus (L.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Lachnostylis hirta (L.f.) Müll.Arg.
  3. Discocarpus mazarunensis Croizat - Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus (Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm.
Names in Urticaceae[11] In 1851, Liebmann used the same name, Discocarpus, to refer to some plants in the Urticaceae.[12] Thus he created an illegitimate homonym, so his usage of the name had to be abandoned. Species names created in Urticaceae:[13]
  1. Discocarpus mexicanus Liebm. - Discocnide mexicana (Liebm.) Chew
  2. Discocarpus nicaraguensis Liebm. - Discocnide mexicana (Liebm.) Chew

Notes and References

  1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9707084#page/209/mode/1up Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich. 1841. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 7(1): 201-202
  2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40033510 Tropicos Discocarpus Klotzsch
  3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=63036 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  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. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil Web site: Archived copy . 2015-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ . 2015-09-06 . . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  6. Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  7. 20443245. A Phylogenetic Classification of Phyllanthaceae (Malpighiales; Euphorbiaceae sensu lato). Hoffmann. Petra. Kathriarachchi. Hashendra. Wurdack. Kenneth J.. Kew Bulletin. 2006. 61. 1. 37–53.
  8. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50151777?tab=specimens Tropicos, specimen list for Discocarpus essequeboensis Klotzsch
  9. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/50102816?tab=specimens Tropicos, specimen list for Discocarpus gentryi S.M. Hayden
  10. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/12805420?tab=specimens Tropicos, specimen list for Discocarpus spruceanus Müll. Arg.
  11. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40033520 Tropicos, Discocarpus Liebm.
  12. Liebmann, Frederik Michael. 1851. Kongelige Danske videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter, Naturvidenskabeli Mathematisk Afdeling 2: 308
  13. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2772937 The Plant List, synonymy for Discocnide mexicana (Liebm.) Chew

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