Alchornea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamilia: Acalyphoideae
Tribus: Alchorneae
Subtribus: Alchorneinae
Genus: Alchornea
Species: A. acroneura – A. acutifolia – A. alnifolia – A. anamariae – A. androgyna – A. annamica – A. bogotensis – A. brittonii – A. castaneifolia – A. chiapasana – A. coelophylla – A. conceveiboides – A. cordifolia – A. costaricensis – A. davidii – A. discolor – A. floribunda – A. fluviatilis – A. glabra – A. glandulosa – A. grandiflora – A. grandis – A. guatemalensis – A. hilariana – A. hirtella – A. humbertii – A. hunanensis – A. ilicifolia – A. integrifolia – A. latifolia – A. laxiflora – A. liukiuensis – A. lojaensis – A. megalophylla – A. mildbraedii – A. mollis – A. occidentalis – A. parviflora – A. pearcei – A. perrieri – A. rhodophylla – A. rugosa – A. sicca – A. sidifolia – A. tachirensis – A. tiliifolia – A. trewioides – A. triplinervia – A. verticillata – A. websteri – A. yambuyaensis
Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Alchornea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jun 07. Reference page.

Name

Alchornea Sw., Prodr. 6. 98. 1788.

Type species: Alchornea latifolia Sw.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Cladodes Lour., Fl. Cochinch.: 574 (1790).
Hermesia Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., Sp. Pl., ed. 4, 4: 809 (1806).
Schousboea Schumach., Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 449 (1827), nom. illeg.
Caelebogyne Js.Sm., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1: 41 (1839).
Stipellaria Benth., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 6: 2 (1854).
Lepidoturus Bojer ex Baill., Étude Euphorb.: 448 (1858).
Bleekeria Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(2): 407 (1859), nom. illeg.

References
Primary references

Swartz, O. 1788. Nova genera & species plantarum seu Prodromus descriptionum vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum quae sub itinere in Indiam Occidentalem annis 1783–87 digessit Olof Swartz. M. D. X+152 pp., index. M.Swederi, Holmiae [Stockholm] etc. BHL Reference page. : 98

Additional references

Welzen, P.C. van & Bulalacao, L.J. (2007). The genus Alchornea (Euphorbiaceae) in the Malay Archipelago and Thailand. Syst. Bot. 32: 803—818.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Alchornea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jun 07. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Alchornea. Published online. Accessed: Jun 07 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Alchornea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jun 07.

Vernacular names
中文: 山麻杆属

Alchornea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788.[3][4] It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, South Asia, Australia, Latin America, and various oceanic islands.[2] Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that Bocquillonia from New Caledonia is nested in Alchornea.[5]

Species[2]

Alchornea acutifolia - Venezuela, Colombia, Peru
Alchornea alnifolia - Madagascar, Mayotte
Alchornea anamariae - Peru, Bolivia
Alchornea androgyna - N Vietnam
Alchornea annamica - Vietnam
Alchornea aquifolia - Queensland, New South Wales
Alchornea bogotensis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
Alchornea brittonii - Peru, Bolivia
Alchornea castaneifolia - South America
Alchornea chiapasana - Veracruz, Chiapas
Alchornea coelophylla - Colombia, Ecuador
Alchornea cordifolia - tropical Africa
Alchornea costaricensis - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
Alchornea davidii - S China
Alchornea discolor - South America
Alchornea floribunda - tropical Africa
Alchornea fluviatilis - South America
Alchornea glabra - Anhui
Alchornea glandulosa - South + Central America
Alchornea grandiflora - South + Central America
Alchornea grandis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama
Alchornea guatemalensis - Baja Verapaz
Alchornea hilariana - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
Alchornea hirtella - Africa
Alchornea humbertii - Madagascar
Alchornea hunanensis - Hunan
Alchornea integrifolia - Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia
Alchornea latifolia - Mexico, West Indies, C + S America
Alchornea laxiflora - Africa
Alchornea liukiuensis - Taiwan, Nansei-shoto
Alchornea lojaensis - Ecuador
Alchornea megalophylla - Colombia, Panama
Alchornea mildbraedii - Cameroon
Alchornea mollis - E Himalayas
Alchornea occidentalis - C Africa
Alchornea parviflora - Thailand, Philippines, Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
Alchornea pearcei - Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
Alchornea perrieri - Madagascar
Alchornea rhodophylla - Penang
Alchornea rugosa - SE Asia, S China, Assam, Queensland, Papuasia
Alchornea scandens - Vietnam
Alchornea sicca - Luzon, Indochina
Alchornea sidifolia - S Brazil, Misiones
Alchornea tachirensis - Venezuela, Colombia
Alchornea tiliifolia - SE Asia, E Himalayas
Alchornea trewioides - S China, N Vietnam
Alchornea triplinervia - South + Central America, Trinidad
Alchornea ulmifolia - Ryukyu Islands
Alchornea vaniotii - Yunnan
Alchornea websteri - Ecuador
Alchornea yambuyaensis - SC Africa

formerly included

moved to other genera (Aparisthmium Cleidion Cnesmone Discocleidion Discoglypremna Necepsia Neoscortechinia Orfilea Sampantaea Trigonostemon Wetria )

A. amentiflora - Sampantaea amentiflora
A. arborea - Neoscortechinia nicobarica
A. blumeana - Wetria insignis
A. caloneura - Discoglypremna caloneura
A. castaneifolia - Necepsia castaneifolia
A. cordata (A.Juss.) Müll.Arg. 1866 not Benth. 1849 - Aparisthmium cordatum
A. coriacea (Baill.) Müll.Arg. 1865 not Ule 1909 - Orfilea coriacea
A. cuneata - Trigonostemon heteranthus
A. cuneifolia - Trigonostemon heteranthus
A. latifolia Klotzsch not Sw. 1788 - Aparisthmium cordatum
A. macrophylla - Aparisthmium cordatum
A. madagascariensis - Necepsia castaneifolia
A. mairei - Cnesmone mairei
A. mappa - Macaranga mappa
A. martiana - Conceveiba martiana
A. multispicata - Orfilea multispicata
A. oblongifolia - Cleidion castaneifolium
A. orinocensis - Aparisthmium cordatum
A. rufescens - Discocleidion rufescens

References

illustration circa 1880, from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas
"Alchornea in". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 98 in Latin
Alchornea in PlantList
Wurdack, K. J., P. Hoffmann, and M. W. Chase (2005). Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Uniovulate Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiaceae Sensu Stricto) Using Plastid rbcL and trnL-F DNA Sequences.” American Journal of Botany 92(8): 1397–1420.