Published July 30, 2024 | Version v1
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Flueggea virosa subsp. virosa

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810 - 193 Aveiro, Portugal
  • 2. Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810 - 193 Aveiro, Portugal & CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810 - 193 Aveiro, Portugal
  • 3. Science Department, Algae, Fungi and Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, UK
  • 4. Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, TW 9 3 AB, United Kingdom
  • 5. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology Leiden, University of Leiden, P. O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Description

* Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle (1836: 328) subsp. virosa

Ecology: evergreen and deciduous forests, thickets, waste lands, open swamps, near fields or in abandoned fields, savannah, near streams, along roadsides, along the beach; soil: clay, loam, sand, alluvial; bedrock granite, limestone, or shale; elevation: Sea level up to 1.000(–2.300) m (Barker & van Welzen 2010).

Distribution: throughout tropical Africa to south central, southeast tropical and subtropical Asia, Peninsula Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas (Barker & van Welzen 2010).

Specimens examined: Indonesia (Timor Barat): South Central Timor, [Kumlol, 9°36’52” S, 124°19’42” E], Sauveur, E. G. 142 (L [L.2226533]); TimorUnknown s.n. (L [L.2226534]); Unknown s.n. (L [L.2226535]); December 1859, de Vriese, W. H. & Teijsmann, J. E. s.n. (L [L.2226594]); December 1859, de Vriese, W. H. & Teijsmann, J. E. s.n. (L [L.2226593]); December 1859, de Vriese, W. H. & Teijsmann, J. E. s.n. (L [L.2226592]); Unknown s.n. (L [L.2226595]); Unknown s.n. (L [L.2226598]); Unknown s.n. (L [L.2226597]).

Red List Assessment: Least Concern.

Notes

Published as part of Simão, Inês F., Silveira, Paulo C., Wajer, Jacek, Schuiteman, André & Welzen, Peter Van, 2024, Checklist of the Timorese Euphorbiaceae and related families, pp. 123-149 in Phytotaxa 661 (2) on page 142, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.661.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13218376

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
L
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Phyllanthaceae
Genus
Flueggea
Species
virosa
Taxon rank
subSpecies

References

  • Royle, J. F. (1836) Illustrations of the botany and other branches of the natural history of the Himalayan Mountains and of the Flora of Cashmere 9. Wm. H. Allen and Co., London, 472 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1797888
  • Barker, C. & van Welzen, P. C. (2010) Flueggea (Euphorbiaceae s. l. or Phyllanthaceae) in Malesia. Systematic Botany 35: 541 - 551. https: // doi. org / 10.1600 / 036364410792495890