Tritaxis (plant)

Tritaxis
Tritaxis glabella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Crotonoideae
Tribe: Codiaeae
Genus:
Baillon

Tritaxis is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to Southeast Asia, including parts of India, Sri Lanka, China Hainan, else into Philippines New Guinea, and Northern Australia (Queensland).[1] [2] Until recently, many species were listed under the genus Dimorphocalyx, first described as a genus several years later in 1861.[3] [4][5][6]

Species[1]
  1. Tritaxis australiensis - Lesser Sunda Is, Papua New Guinea, Australia: (Queensland)
  2. Tritaxis balakrishnanii - Andaman Islands
  3. Tritaxis beddomei - India
  4. Tritaxis cumingii - Philippines
  5. Tritaxis denticulata - Philippines, Malaysia (Sarawak), Indonesia: (Borneo)
  6. Tritaxis gaudichaudii - Vietnam
  7. Tritaxis glabella - India, Sri Lanka
  8. Tritaxis ixoroides - Philippines
  9. Tritaxis kurnoolensis - India (Andhra Pradesh)
  10. Tritaxis malayana - Thailand, Indonesia: (Borneo), Malaysia: (Sarawak), Philippines
  11. Tritaxis meeboldii - Myanmar
  12. Tritaxis moluccensis - Philippines
  13. Tritaxis muricata - Thailand, Indonesia: (Borneo, Sumatra)
  14. Tritaxis muricata - Malaysia: (Sarawak, Sabah), Philippines
  15. Tritaxis pauciflora - Thailand, Malaysia: (Borneo, Sumatra)
  16. Tritaxis poilanei - China (Hainan), Vietnam
  17. Tritaxis trichocarpa - Malaysia: (Borneo)

References

  1. ^ a b Kew Plants of World Online
  2. ^ Tropicos, Tritaxis Baill.
  3. ^ Dimorphocalyx Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1861. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae 278 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  4. ^ Tropicos, Dimorphocalyx Thwaites
  5. ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. ^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 272 异萼木属 yi e mu shu Dimorphocalyx Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl. 278. 1861