Paranecepsia

Paranecepsia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Bernardieae
Genus: Paranecepsia
Radcl.-Sm.
Binomial name
Paranecepsia alchorneifolia
Radcl.-Sm.

Paranecepsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1976.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Paranecepsia alchorneifolia, native to southeastern Africa (eastern Tanzania and Niassa Province in northern Mozambique).[3][4]

The species has been classified as vulnerable.[5]

References

  1. Radcliffe-Smith, Alan. 1976. Kew Bulletin 30: 684
  2. Tropicos
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. 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.
  5. Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. Paranecepsia alchorneifolia. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 August 2007.


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