Chaetocarpus

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: Peraceae
Genus: Chaetocarpus
Species: C. acutifolius – C. africanus – C. castanocarpus – C. cordifolius – C. coriaceus – C. cubensis – C. echinocarpus – C. ferrugineus – C. gabonensis – C. globosus – C. myrsinites – C. parvifolius – C. pearcei – C. pubescens – C. rabaraba – C. schomburgkianus
Name

Chaetocarpus Thwaites, Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 6: 300. (1854) nom. cons.

Type species: Chaetocarpus castanocarpus (Roxb.) Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 275. (1861) originally designated as C. pungens Thwaites (1854), nom. illeg. Thwaites refers to Adelia castanicarpa Roxburgh as his basionym

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Mettenia Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. I.: 43 (1859).
Regnaldia Baill., Recueil Observ. Bot. 1: 187 (1861).
Gaedawakka L. ex Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 606 (1891).
Neochevaliera A.Chev. & Beille, Compt. Rend. Hebd. Séances Acad. Sci. 145: 1294 (1907).

Homonyms

Chaetocarpus P. A. Karsten, Bidrag Kännedom Finlands Natur Folk 48: 406. (1889) (non Schreber (1789) (nom. rej.), nec Thwaites (1854) (nom. cons.)).
Chaetocarpus Schreber, Gen. 75. Apr 1789 (nom. rej.) ≡ Pouteria Aublet 1775 nom. rej. vs. Chaetocarpus Thwaites 1854 (nom. cons.)

References

Thwaites, G.H.W. 1854. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 300.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Chaetocarpus in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr. 24. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Chaetocarpus. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Chaetocarpus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr. 24.

Chaetocarpus is a plant genus of the family Peraceae, formerly Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1854.[2][3] Chaetocarpus species are trees or shrubs. They are native to the Americas, Africa,[4] and Asia.[5][1] Some species are endangered.[6]

Species[1]

Chaetocarpus acutifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi - Sierra de Moa in Cuba
Chaetocarpus africanus Pax - C Africa
Chaetocarpus castanocarpus (Roxb.) Thwaites - SE Asia, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Chaetocarpus cordifolius (Urb.) Borhidi - Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica
Chaetocarpus coriaceus Thwaites - Sri Lanka
Chaetocarpus cubensis Fawc. & Rendle - Cuba
Chaetocarpus echinocarpus (Baill.) Ducke - Bolivia, Brazil
Chaetocarpus ferrugineus Philcox - Sri Lanka
Chaetocarpus gabonensis Breteler - Gabon
Chaetocarpus globosus (Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle - Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep.
Chaetocarpus myrsinites Baill. - Bolivia, Brazil
Chaetocarpus parvifolius Borhidi - Cuba
Chaetocarpus pearcei Rusby - Bolivia
Chaetocarpus pubescens (Thwaites) Hook.f. - Sri Lanka
Chaetocarpus rabaraba Capuron - Madagascar
Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus (Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil

member of homonymic genus, synonym of Pouteria

Chaetocarpus pouteria J.F.Gmel, synonym of Pouteria guianensis Aubl. (Sapotaceae)
References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1854. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 300-301, pl. 10a description in Latin, habitat info and commentary in English
Tropicos, genus Chaetocarpus
Breteler, F. J. (2002). Novitates Gabonenses 46. A new Chaetocarpus (Euphorbiaceae) from Gabon. Archived 22 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Adansonia 24(2) 221-27.
Chaetocarpus. Flora of China.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Chaetocarpus pubescens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Downloaded on 8 May 2013.