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Croton ceanothifolius Baillon 1864

  • 1. Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais, Núcleo de Pesquisa Curadoria do Herbário, São Paulo, SP 01061 - 970, Brazil & Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, 09972 - 270, Diadema, SP, Brazil. & amanda. pnoronhap @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4874 - 129 X
  • 2. Real Jardín Botánico (RJB), CSIC, Plaza de Murillo 2, 28014, Madrid, Spain. & rriina @ rjb. csic. es; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7423 - 899 X
  • 3. Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais, Núcleo de Pesquisa Curadoria do Herbário, São Paulo, SP 01061 - 970, Brazil & Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, 09972 - 270, Diadema, SP, Brazil. & mbrcaruzo @ unifesp. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 8393 - 214 X

Description

5. Croton ceanothifolius Baillon (1864: 295).

Lectotype (first step designated by Lima & Pirani 2008b, second step designated here): BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: ‘dans les capueiras’, 1816, A. Saint-Hilaire D-558 (P 00493358!; isolectotypes P 00493359!, P 00623093!). Remaining syntype: BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: ‘ass. comm. sur. les bords de l’Ouro-Preto’, 1816–1821, A. Saint-Hilaire B1-227 (P 00493360!) (Fig. 3, A–E).

Croton ceanothifolius is a very common shrub in Paraná. It has discolorous leaves, the adaxial leaf surface with stellate trichomes and the abaxial surface with stellate-lepidote trichomes. Leaf venation can be easily distinguished, and secondary veins are raised on the abaxial surface. The species belongs to sect. Lamprocroton subsect. Lamprocroton (Müller Argoviensis 1873: 244) van Ee & Berry (2011: 93).

Distribution and habitat:— It occurs in southern (PR, RS, SC) and southeastern Brazil (MG, SP) (Caruzo & Cordeiro 2007, Caruzo et al. 2020). Frequent in habitats include open vegetation, edges of forest, riverbanks, rock outcrops or sandy soils, between 750 and 1200 m elevation. (Fig. 4).

Phenology:— Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.

Representative specimens:— PARANÁ: Bocaiúva do Sul, Fazenda Serra do Putunã, 17 March 2005, J. M. Silva, L. M. Abe & F. F. Ramos 4294 (MBM, RB). Curitiba, Boqueirão, 28 January 1975, L. F. Ferreira 194 (MBM, MO). Palmeira, Cercado, 14 February 2006, E. Barbosa, J. Cordeiro, E. F. Costa & E. S. Pinto 1201 (MBM, RB). Ponta Grossa, 25°10’15.1”S, 49°55’28.4”W, 1012 m, 16 October 2009, M. G. Caxambu & E. L. Siqueira 2745 (HCF, MBM). União da Vitória, Bom Jesus, 753 m, 08 January 2016, A. P. N. Pereira & C. V. Ubinski 20 (SP).

Notes

Published as part of Pereira, Amanda Da Paixão Noronha, Riina, Ricarda & Caruzo, Maria Beatriz Rossi, 2022, Croton (Euphorbiaceae) of the Brazilian state of Paraná: an annotated checklist, species distribution, and identification key, pp. 231-274 in Phytotaxa 570 (3) on page 238, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.570.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7260277

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
C, V , E, F , E, L , E, S , F , HCF, MBM, A, P, N , J , J, M , L, M , MBM, MO, E , MBM, RB, L, F , MBM, RB, M, G , P , SP
Material sample ID
00493358
Event date
1975-01-28 , 2005-03-17 , 2006-02-14 , 2009-10-16 , 2016-01-08
Verbatim event date
1975-01-28 , 2005-03-17 , 2006-02-14 , 2009-10-16 , 2016-01-08
Scientific name authorship
Baillon
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Croton
Species
ceanothifolius
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Croton ceanothifolius Baillon, 1864 sec. Pereira, Riina & Caruzo, 2022

References

  • Baillon, H. E. (1864) Species Euphorbiacearum. Euphorbiacees Americaines. Premiere partie: Amerique austro-orientale. Adansonia 4: 257 - 377.
  • Lima, L. R. & Pirani, J. R. (2008 b) Three new species of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) from Brazil. Kew Bulletin 63: 121 - 129. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12225 - 007 - 9008 - 4
  • Muller Argoviensis, J. (1873) Euphorbiaceae. In: Martius, C. F. P. von & Eichler, A. W. (Eds.) Flora Brasiliensis 11 (2). Fleischer, Leipzig, pp. 1 - 752.
  • van Ee, B. W., Riina, R. & Berry, P. E. (2011) A revised infrageneric classification and molecular phylogeny of New World Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Taxon 60: 791 - 823. https: // doi. org / 10.3372 / wi. 41.41102
  • Caruzo, M. B. R. & Cordeiro, I. (2007) Sinopse da tribo Crotoneae Dumort. (Euphorbiaceae s. s.) no Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Hoehnea 34: 571 - 585. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 2236 - 89062007000400011
  • Caruzo, M. B. R., Secco, R. S., Medeiros, D., Riina, R., Torres, D. S. C., Santos, R. F., Pereira, A. P. N., Rossine, Y., Lima, L. R., Muniz-Filho, E., Valduga, E. (2020) Croton. In: Flora do Brasil 2020. Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro. Available at: http: // floradobrasil. jbrj. gov. br / reflora / floradobrasil / FB 17497 (accessed 8 January 2022)