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Acalypha multicaulis Mull. Arg.

  • 1. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin 2, Madrid, 28049, Spain. & Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin 2, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
  • 2. Department of Biology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX 1 3 RB, UK. & Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, 28040, Spain.
  • 3. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, calle Darwin 2, Madrid, 28049, Spain.
  • 4. Real Jardín Botánico, RJB-CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, Madrid, 28014, Spain.

Description

49. Acalypha multicaulis Müll.Arg. nom. cons. prop. in prep.

Linnaea 34 (1): 53 (Müller Argoviensis 1865).

Ricinocarpus multicaulis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze; = Acalypha pruriens Nees & Mart. nom. rej. prop. R. pruriens (Nees & Mart.) Kuntze; = A. ruderalis Mart. ex Colla nom. rej. prop.; = A. tenuicaulis Baill.; = A. multicaulis var. tomentella Müll.Arg.; = A. lagoensis Müll.Arg.; Kuntze; = A. multicaulis var. tenuispica Pax & K.Hoffm.; = A. multicaulis var. glabrescens Pax & K.Hoffm.

Voucher specimens

ARGENTINA – Entre RíosBurkart, A. 20613; MO, SI.

BRAZIL – CearáBarros, F. 1782; MAUAM, SP.

PARAGUAY – ParaguaríFiebrig, K. 898; BM, F, GH, K.

URUGUAY – ParaguaríLegrand, C.D. 329; F.

Habit

Subshrub or shrub. Native.

Habitat

Eastern Highlands: Cerrados, Caatinga, and Atlantic Forests; Gran Chaco: Humid Chaco; Pampas: Northern Rolling Pampas, alt. (40‒)200‒1000(‒1200) m.

Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

References

Cardiel et al. (2013b, 2022b), Cardiel & Muñoz-Rodríguez (2015).

Provisional conservation status

LC.

Remarks

A proposal to conserve the name Acalypha multicaulis against A. pruriens and A. ruderalis has been recently presented (Cardiel et al. 2023).

Notes

Published as part of Cardiel, José María, Muñoz-Rodríguez, Pablo, González-Berdasco, Álvaro & Montero-Muñoz, Iris, 2023, Catalogue and red list of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae) from South America, pp. 1-92 in European Journal of Taxonomy 886 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.886.2201, http://zenodo.org/record/8222657

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BM, F, GH, K , F , MAUAM, SP , MO, SI
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Acalypha
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Malpighiales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Mull. Arg.
Species
multicaulis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Muller Argoviensis J. 1865. Euphorbiaceae. Vorlaufige Mittheilungen aus dem fur De Candolle Prodromus bestimmtem Manuscript uber diese Familie. Linnaea 34 (1): 1 - 54.
  • Cardiel J. M., Nee M. & Munoz-Rodriguez P. 2013 b. Synopsis of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae) of Peru and Bolivia, with description of a new species. Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid 70 (2): 152 - 177 https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / ajbm. 2366
  • Cardiel J. M., Cordeiro de Sousa A. A., Cordeiro I., Rossi M. B., Marques da Silva O. L., Munoz-Rodriguez P., Lopez A. & Montero-Munoz I. 2022 b. Updated synopsis of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from Brazil. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 308: 24. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00606 - 022 - 01816 - 0
  • Cardiel J. M. & Munoz-Rodriguez P. 2015. Synopsis of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) of Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 101 (2): 384 - 405. https: // doi. org / 10.3417 / 2014006
  • Cardiel J. M., Munoz-Rodriguez P. & Montero-Munoz I. 2023. A proposal to conserve the name Acalypha multicaulis against A. pruriens and A. ruderalis (Euphorbiaceae). Taxon 72 (1): 210 - 211. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / tax. 12867