| Alchornea | |
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| Alchornea sicca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Acalyphoideae |
| Tribe: | Alchorneae |
| Subtribe: | Alchorneinae |
| Genus: | Alchornea Sw. |
| Synonyms | |
Alchornea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, South Asia, Australia, Latin America, and various oceanic islands. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that Bocquillonia from New Caledonia is nested in Alchornea.
- Species
- Alchornea acutifolia - Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
- Alchornea alnifolia - Madagascar, Mayotte
- Alchornea anamariae - Peru, Bolivia
- Alchornea androgyna - N Vietnam
- Alchornea annamica - Vietnam
- Alchornea aquifolia - Queensland, New South Wales
- Alchornea bogotensis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea brittonii - Peru, Bolivia
- Alchornea castaneifolia - South America
- Alchornea chiapasana - Veracruz, Chiapas
- Alchornea coelophylla - Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea cordifolia - tropical Africa
- Alchornea costaricensis - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea davidii - S China
- Alchornea discolor - South America
- Alchornea floribunda - tropical Africa
- Alchornea fluviatilis - South America
- Alchornea glabra - Anhui
- Alchornea glandulosa - South + Central America
- Alchornea grandiflora - South + Central America
- Alchornea grandis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
- Alchornea guatemalensis - Baja Verapaz
- Alchornea hilariana - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Alchornea hirtella - Africa
- Alchornea humbertii - Madagascar
- Alchornea hunanensis - Hunan
- Alchornea integrifolia - Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia
- Alchornea latifolia - Mexico, West Indies, C + S America
- Alchornea laxiflora - Africa
- Alchornea liukiuensis - Taiwan, Nansei-shoto
- Alchornea lojaensis - Ecuador
- Alchornea megalophylla - Colombia, Panama
- Alchornea mildbraedii - Cameroon
- Alchornea mollis - E Himalayas
- Alchornea occidentalis - C Africa
- Alchornea parviflora - Thailand, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
- Alchornea pearcei - Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
- Alchornea perrieri - Madagascar
- Alchornea rhodophylla - Penang
- Alchornea rugosa - SE Asia, S China, Assam, Queensland, Papuasia
- Alchornea scandens - Vietnam
- Alchornea sicca - Luzon, Indochina
- Alchornea sidifolia - S Brazil, Misiones
- Alchornea tachirensis - Venezuela, Colombia
- Alchornea tiliifolia - SE Asia, E Himalayas
- Alchornea trewioides - S China, N Vietnam
- Alchornea triplinervia - South + Central America, Trinidad
- Alchornea ulmifolia - Ryukyu Islands
- Alchornea vaniotii - Yunnan
- Alchornea websteri - Ecuador
- Alchornea yambuyaensis - SC Africa
- formerly included
moved to other genera (Aparisthmium Cleidion Cnesmone Discocleidion Discoglypremna Necepsia Neoscortechinia Orfilea Sampantaea Trigonostemon Wetria )
- A. amentiflora - Sampantaea amentiflora
- A. arborea - Neoscortechinia nicobarica
- A. blumeana - Wetria insignis
- A. caloneura - Discoglypremna caloneura
- A. castaneifolia - Necepsia castaneifolia
- A. cordata (A.Juss.) Müll.Arg. 1866 not Benth. 1849 - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. coriacea (Baill.) Müll.Arg. 1865 not Ule 1909 - Orfilea coriacea
- A. cuneata - Trigonostemon heteranthus
- A. cuneifolia - Trigonostemon heteranthus
- A. latifolia Klotzsch not Sw. 1788 - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. macrophylla - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. madagascariensis - Necepsia castaneifolia
- A. mairei - Cnesmone mairei
- A. mappa - Macaranga mappa
- A. martiana - Conceveiba martiana
- A. multispicata - Orfilea multispicata
- A. oblongifolia - Cleidion castaneifolium
- A. orinocensis - Aparisthmium cordatum
- A. rufescens - Discocleidion rufescens
References
- illustration circa 1880, from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas
- ^ "Alchornea in". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
- Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 98 in Latin
- Alchornea in PlantList
- 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.
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