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Acalypha (Androcephala) Pax & K. Hoffm.

  • 1. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Postal Code 28049, Madrid (Spain) Current address: Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (RJB), CSIC, Plaza Murillo 2, 28014, Madrid (Spain) iris. montero @ uam. es i. montero @ rjb. csic. es (corresponding author)
  • 2. Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, of Illinois, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61920 (United States) Current Address: Canadian Museum of Nature, P. O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario K 1 P 6 P 4 (Canada)
  • 3. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Postal Code 28049, Madrid (Spain) Instituto de Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (CIBC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Postal Code 28049, Madrid (Spain)

Description

Acalypha subgen. Androcephala Pax & K.Hoffm.

Das Pflanzenreich (Engler), 147, 16 (Heft 85): 21 (Pax & Hoffmann 1924). — Type: Acalypha diminuta Baill.

DESCRIPTION Inflorescences terminal, androgynous; female segment racemose or paniculate; male segment racemose to subumbelliform (in WIOR species). Female bracts minute, non-accrescent in fruit. Female flowers pedicellate; sepals 5; ovary 3-lobed, styles 3.

Notes

Published as part of Muñoz, Iris Montero, Levin, Geoffrey A. & Cardiel, José María, 2023, Monograph of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae) of the Western Indian Ocean Region, with the description of a new species from Mayotte, pp. 395-496 in Adansonia (3) (3) 45 (26) on page 416, DOI: 10.5252/adansonia2023v45a26, http://zenodo.org/record/10209220

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Pax & K. Hoffm.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Acalypha
Taxon rank
subGenus

References

  • PAX F. A. & HOFFMANN K. 1924. - Acalypha, in ENGLER A. (ed.), Das Pflanzenreich. IV, 147 - 16 (heft 85). Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1 - 231.