Ricinodendron

Ricinodendron
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Malpighiales
Family:Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:Crotonoideae
Tribe:Ricinodendreae
Genus:Ricinodendron
Müll. Arg.
Species: R. heudelotii
Binomial name
Ricinodendron heudelotii
Subspecies and varieties
  • Ricinodendron heudelotii subsp. africanum (Müll.Arg.) J.Léonard
  • Ricinodendron heudelotii var. tomentellum (Hutch. & E.A.Bruce) Radcl.-Sm.
Synonyms[2]

Ricinodendron heudelotii subsp. heudelotii[1]

Ricinodendron is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864.[3][4] It includes only one known species njangsa (Ricinodendron heudelotii), native to tropical Africa from Senegal + Liberia east to Sudan and Tanzania and south to Mozambique and Angola.[2]

The mongongo fruit (Schinziophyton rautanenii) was previously considered a member of this genus but has since been placed into a genus of its own.

Subspecies and varieties[2][1]
  1. Ricinodendron heudelotii subsp. africanum (Müll.Arg.) J.Léonard - tropical Africa from Nigeria east to Sudan and Tanzania and south to Mozambique and Angola
  2. Ricinodendron heudelotii var. tomentellum (Hutch. & E.A.Bruce) Radcl.-Sm. - Kenya, Tanzania
Formerly included[2]

moved to Schinziophyton

  1. R. rautanenii - Schinziophyton rautanenii
  2. R. viticoides - Schinziophyton rautanenii

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-178842 (accessed 22 September 2017).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1864. Flora; oder, (allgemeine) botanische Zeitung 47: 533-534 in Latin
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Ricinodendron J. Mueller-Arg.


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