Malesian Euphorbiaceae Newsletter 5

 

 

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Literature

Genera and Species to be Revised

Revised Genera

Additions and Changes in the Mailing List


Literature

 

Wightman, G. et al. 1994. Gurindji ethnobotany: aboriginal plant use from Daguragu, Northern Australia. North. Terr. Bot. Bull. 18. Several Australian Euphorbiaceae and their local uses and vernacular names.

 

Wightman, G., I.P. Astuti & E. Munawaroh. 1994. Sundanese Ethnobotany: traditional plant knowledge from Ciamis and Tasikmalaya, West Java, Indonesia. North. Terr. Bot. Bull. 19. The use and vernacular names of several plants, also some Euphorbiaceae, of W. Java.

 

Genera and Species to be revised

 

The following list shows the Malesian Euphorbiaceae genera in alphabetical order, the number of species estimated world-wide, estimated within Malesia, presence world-wide, and the contributor. This list is the updated version from the second newsletter.

Genus

World

Malesia

Presence

Contributor

Acalypha

430

25

Pantropical

Levin

Actephila

35

6

Indomalesia to Australia

Hoffmann

Agrostistachys

9

5

India to W Malesia

Nais

Alchornea  

70

3

Tropical

Banka & Bulalacao

Aleurites

6

1

W Pacific

Bulalacao

Alphandia

3

1

New Guinea, W Pacific

Leiden students

Annesijoa

1

1

New Guina

Leiden students

Antidesma

160

60

Old world tropics and warm areas

Hoffmann

Aporosa

75

60

Indomalesia to Solomons

Schot

Ashtonia

2

2

Malay Penin., Borneo

Nais

Austrobuxus

17

1

Malesia to Fiji

Levin

Baccaurea

80

50

Indomalesia to W Pacific

Haegens

Baliospermum

6

1

India to central Malesia

Leiden students

Bischofia

1

1

Indomalesia

Leiden students

Blachia

12

1

India to central Malesia

 

Blumeodendron

6

6

Andamans, Malesia

Perumal

Borneodendron

1

N Borneo

Nais

Botryophora

0

1

SE Asia, W Malesia

Perumal

Breynia  

25

10

China to Australia and New Caledonia

Bruhl, Nais

Bridelia  

60

15

Old world tropics

Dressler

Cephalomappa

5

5

S China, Malesia

Widuri

Chondrostylis  

2

1

SE Asia, W Malesia

 

Choriceras  

1

1

S New Guinea, Australia

Forster

Chrozophora

12

1

Mediterranean, trop. Africa to India

Leiden students

Cladogynos  

1

1

SE Asia, Malesia

Thin

Claoxylon

 80

40

Old world tropics

 

Cleidion

25

3

Pantropical

Bulalacao

Cleistanthus

130

40

Old world tropics

Dressler

Clonostylis

0

1

Synonym of Spathiostemon

 

Cnesmone

10

1

Assam to W Malesia

Armbruster, Gillespie

Coccoceras

4

4

Burma to Borneo

Whitmore

Codiaeum

6

10

Malesia to Pacific

Wiryani

Croton

750

35

Tropical and warm areas 

Ahumada

Dalechampia  

110

1

Warm areas, esp. America

Armbruster

Deutzianthus

2

1

Indochina and Sumatra

Thin

Dicoelia

3

1

W Malesia

Webster

Dimorphocalyx

12

5

Indomalesia to Australia

 

Doroxylon

1

1

Malesia

Leiden students

Drypetes

200

50

E Asia, S Africa

Levin

Elateriospermum

1

1

 S Thailand, Malay Pen.

Kochummen

Endospermum

13

10

SE Asia to Fiji

Kochummen

Epiprinus

6

1

Assam to W Malesia

Thin

Erythrococca

30

1

Trop. & S Africa

 

Euphorbia

1600

30

Cosmopolitan

Vajravelu

Excoecaria

40

5

Old world tropics

Djarwaningsih

Fahrenheitia

4

1

India to central Malesia

Kochummen

Flueggea

13

2

Tropical

Barker

Fontainea

2

1

New Guinea, Australia, New Caledonia

Forster

Galearia

6

5

SE Asia to Solomons

Metilistina Sasinggla

Glochidion

300

150

Tropical

Chakrabarty

Hevea

9

1

Amazonia

Leiden students

Homonoia

2

1

SE Asia, Malesia

Leiden students

Hura

2

1

Trop. America

 

Hymenocardia

5

Africa, SE Asia to Sumatra

 

Jatropha

170

5

Tropical and warm areas, N America

Fernandez Casas

Kairothamnus

1

1

New Guinea

Levin

Koilodepas

10

5

India to Malesia

Ms. Muzayyinah

Lasiococca

3

1

E Himalayas to Malay Pen.

Thin

Leptopus

20

1

W Himalayas to Australia

Bruhl

Macaranga

240

125

Old world tropics

Whitmore

Mallotus

140

50

Old world tropics

Mohamad

Manihot

98

3

Tropical and warm America

Leiden students

Margaritaria

4

1

Tropical

Barker

Megistostigma

4

1

SE Asia, W Malesia

Armbruster, Gillespie

Melanolepis

2

1

SE Asia to Pacific

Thin

Micrococca

14

1

Old world tropics

 

Microdesmis

10

2

Trop. Africa, SE Asia, W Malesia

Leiden students

Neoroeptera

1

1

NE Australia

 

Neotrewia

1

1

Malesia

Leiden students

Octospermum

1

1

New Guinea

 

Omalanthus

35

15

Trop. Asia to Australia

Whitmore

Omphalea

20

3

Tropical

Gillespie

Ostodes

4

1

E Himalayas to Borneo

 

Pachystylidium

1

1

India to Central Malesia

Armbruster, Gillespie

Pedilanthes

14

1

N to tropical America

Forster

Petalostigma

7

1

New Guinea, Australia

Forster

Phyllanthus

600

80

Tropical and warm areas

Mitra, Webster

Pimelodendron

8

4

Malesia

Djarwaningsih

Plukenetia

15

1

Africa to Malesia

Armbruster, Gillespie

Ptychopyxis

13

10

Thailand to W Malesia, E New Guinea 

Murdoyuwono

Reutealis

1

1

Philippines

Leiden students

Richeriella

2

1

SE China to central Malesia

Leiden students

Ricinus

1

1

Europe to Africa and Middle East

Leiden students

Sapium

100

3

Tropical and warm areas to Patagonia

Esser

Sauropus

40

5

SE Asia, Indomalesia

Bruhl

Sebastiana

100

2

Tropical and warm areas

Esser

Spathiostemon

3

1

Thailand, W Malesia, New Guinea

Leiden students

Stillingia

30

1

Tropical and warm areas

Esser

Sumbaviopsis

1

1

Assam to W Malesia

Leiden students

Suregada

40

3

Old world tropics

 

Symphyllea

3

1?

India to Hainan and Malaya

 

Tapoides

1

1

Borneo

Leiden students

Trewia

2

1

Himalayas to Hainan

Leiden students

Trigonostemon

45

15

Indomalesia

 

Wetria

1

1

SE Asia to W Malesia, New Guinea

Leiden students

 

Revised genera

 

Genus

World-wide

Malesia

Distribution

Publication

Chaetocarpus

11

1

Pantropical

Rheedea ms. (1994) 93-101

Cheilosa

1

1

W Malesia

Blumea 38 (1993) 161-166

Erismanthus

2

1

SE Asia-W Malesia

Blumea ms.

Lasiococca

3

1

W Malesia

Blumea ms.

Moultonianthus

1

1

W Malesia

Blumea ms.

Neoscortechinia

6

6

Burma to Solomons

Blumea 39 (1994) 301-318

Strophioblachia

1

1

SE Asia-W Malesia

Blumea ms.

Syndyophyllum

2

2

Malesia

Blumea ms.

Trigonopleura

3

3

W Malesia

Blumea ms.

 

Additions and Changes in the mailing list

 

Barker, Christine

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, England. She will revise Flueggea, Margaritaria

Whitmore, T.C.

Will also revise Coccoceras and Omalanthus