Euphorbia
| Euphorbia | |
|---|---|
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| Euphorbia cf. serrata' | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Faimily: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfaimily: | Euphorbioideae |
| Tribe: | Euphorbieae |
| Subtribe: | Euphorbiinae Griseb. |
| Genus: | Euphorbia L. |
| Teep species | |
| Euphorbia antiquorum | |
| Subgenera | |
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Chamaesyce | |
| Diversity | |
| c. 2008 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chamaesyce | |
Euphorbia is a genus o flouerin plants belangin tae the faimily Euphorbiaceae. Consistin o 2008 species,[1] Euphorbia is the fowerth lairgest genus o flouerin plants; it an aa haes ane o the lairgest ranges o chromosome counts, alang wi Rumex an Senecio.[2] Members o the faimily an genus are commonly referred tae as spurges. Euphorbia antiquorum is the type species for the genus Euphorbia;[3] it wis describit bi Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in Species Plantarum. The faimily is primarily foond in the tropical an subtropical regions o Africae an the Americas, but an aa in temperate zones warldwide. Succulent species oreeginate maistly frae Africae, the Americas an Madagascar. Thare exists a wide range o insular species: on the Hawaiian Islands, whaur spurges are collectively kent as "akoko",[4] an on the Canary Islands as "tabaibas".[5][6]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "WCSP". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 16 Apryle 2011.
- ↑ Stebbins, G. Ledyard; Hoogland, R. D. (1976). "Species diversity, ecology and evolution in a primitive Angiosperm genus:Hibbertia (Dilleniaceae)". Plant Systematics and Evolution. 125 (3): 139–154. doi:10.1007/BF00986147.
- ↑ S. Carter (2002). "Euphorbia". In Urs Eggli (ed.). Dicotyledons. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. 5. Springer. p. 102. ISBN 978-3-540-41966-2.
- ↑ Module 14: Hawaiian Archived 2012-04-28 at the Wayback Machine in A Mini-Course in Medical Botany Archived 2009-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ tabaibas
- ↑ http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=tabaiba