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Dalechampia dioscoreifolia

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Species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae

Dalechampia dioscoreifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Genus: Dalechampia
Species: D. dioscoreifolia
Binomial name
Dalechampia dioscoreifolia
Poepp. 1841 not Pulle 1906

Dalechampia dioscoreifolia is a species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1841. It is native to Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama) and northern and western South America (Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, northern Brazil, Bolivia, and possibly Ecuador).

The true D. dioscoreifolia, photo taken in Costa Rica by WS Armbruster
Photo of Dalechampia aristolochiifolia, which is often misidentified as D. dioscoreifolia

References

  1. Poeppig, Eduard Friedrich & Endlicher, Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus. 1841. Nova genera ac species plantarum, quas in regno Chilensi Peruviano et in terra Amazonica 3: 20 in Latin
  2. Tropicos, Dalechampia dioscoreifolia Poepp.
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666.
  5. Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  6. Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
  7. Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. (eds.) 1993. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 45: i–xl, 1–1286
  8. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "2010". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  9. Webster, G. L. & W. S. Armbruster. 1991. A synopsis of the neotropical species of Dalechampia (Euphorbiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 105(2): 137–177.
Taxon identifiers
Dalechampia dioscoreifolia


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