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Genus of flowering plants
Claoxylon is a
flowering plant
genus in the
spurge
family ,
Euphorbiaceae , comprising
dioecious
subshrubs to small trees. It was first described as a genus in 1824.
[2]
[1] The genus is distributed in
paleotropical areas:
Madagascar through
South and
Southeast Asia ,
Malesia to
Melanesia ,
Hawaiʻi , and
Australia . Half of the species are in
Malesia . According to a molecular phylogenetic study by Wurdack, Hoffmann & Chase (2005), Claoxylon is sister to
Erythrococca (50 species, Africa), and together they form the top of a
Hennigian comb -like phylogeny.
[3]
[4]
The genus Claoxylon is usually easily recognizable because the dried leaves in herbariums of most species are rough (few are smooth).
Species
[1]
Claoxylon abbreviatum - Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores, Sulawesi
Claoxylon affine - Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores
Claoxylon albicans - Philippines
Claoxylon albiflorum - Bismarck Archipelago
Claoxylon angustifolium - Queensland
Claoxylon anomalum -
Western Ghats of SW India
Claoxylon arboreum - Philippines
Claoxylon attenuatum - Sabah
Claoxylon australe - Queensland, New South Wales
Claoxylon bicarpellatum - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon biciliatum - Vanuatu
Claoxylon brachyandrum - Philippines, Sabah, Sulawesi
Claoxylon capillipes - Papua New Guinea, Flores
Claoxylon carinatum -
Kalimantan Timur
Claoxylon carolinianum - Caroline Islands
Claoxylon carrii - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon centenarium -
Ogasawara-shoto (
Bonin Islands )
Claoxylon colfsii -
Sumbawa
Claoxylon collenettei -
Rapa-Iti
Claoxylon coriaceolanatum - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon crassipes - Philippines
Claoxylon crassivenium - Philippines
Claoxylon cuneatum - Western New Guinea
Claoxylon decaryanum - Madagascar
Claoxylon dolichostachyum - Réunion
Claoxylon echinospermum - Fiji
Claoxylon ellipticum - Philippines
Claoxylon erythrophyllum - E Indonesia
Claoxylon euphorbioides - Philippines
Claoxylon extenuatum -
Bougainville
Claoxylon fallax - Fiji, Tonga
Claoxylon flavum - Madagascar
Claoxylon fulvescens - Papua New Guinea, Sulawesi
Claoxylon gillisonii - Vanuatu
Claoxylon glabrifolium - Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores
Claoxylon glandulosum - Réunion
Claoxylon goodenoviense -
D'Entrecasteaux Islands
†
Claoxylon grandifolium - Mauritius, Réunion but extinct
Claoxylon gymnadenum -
Bougainville
Claoxylon hainanense -
Hainan
Claoxylon hillii - New Guinea, N Australia
Claoxylon hirsutellum -
Kalimantan Timur
Claoxylon hosei - Sarawak
Claoxylon humbertii - Madagascar
Claoxylon indicum - S China, SE Asia, New Guinea, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Christmas Island
Claoxylon insigne - Sarawak
Claoxylon insulanum - New Caledonia,
Loyalty Islands
Claoxylon kaievskii - Solomon Islands,
Santa Cruz Islands
Claoxylon khasianum - West Bengal, Bangladesh, Assam
Claoxylon kinabaluense - Sabah
Claoxylon kingii - S Thailand,
Perak
Claoxylon kotoense - Taiwan
Claoxylon lambiricum - Sarawak
Claoxylon ledermannii - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon linostachys - Mauritius
Claoxylon longifolium - Assam, SE Asia, New Guinea, Caroline Islands
Claoxylon longipetiolatum -
Sikkim , Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar
Claoxylon longiracemosum -
Palau
Claoxylon lutescens - New Guinea
Claoxylon macranthum - Mauritius, Madagascar
Claoxylon mananarense - Madagascar
Claoxylon marianum - Mariana Islands
Claoxylon medullosum - Madagascar
Claoxylon microcarpum - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon monoicum - Madagascar
Claoxylon muscisilvae - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon neoebudicum - Vanuatu,
Santa Cruz Islands , Fiji
Claoxylon nervosum - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon nigtanig -
Bougainville
Claoxylon nubicola - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon oblanceolatum - Philippines
Claoxylon oliganthum - Thailand
Claoxylon ooumuense -
Nuku Hiva
Claoxylon papuae - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon parviflorum -
Réunion ,
Rodrigues Island
Claoxylon paucinerve - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon perrieri - Madagascar
Claoxylon physocarpum - Sumatra
Claoxylon platyphyllum - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon porphyrostemon - Papua New Guinea
Claoxylon praetermissum - Sabah
Claoxylon pseudoinsulanum -
Kalimantan Timur
Claoxylon psilogyne - Vanuatu
Claoxylon pubescens - Philippines
Claoxylon purpureum - Philippines, Sulawesi
Claoxylon putii - Thailand
Claoxylon racemiflorum -
Réunion
Claoxylon raymondianum - Madagascar
Claoxylon rostratum - Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Myanmar
Claoxylon rubescens -
Lombok , Philippines
Claoxylon rubrivenium -
Luzon
Claoxylon salicinum - Sabah
Claoxylon salomonense - Papua New Guinea,
D'Entrecasteaux Islands ,
Louisiade Archipelago ,
Solomon Islands
Claoxylon samoense - Samoa
Claoxylon sanctae-crucis -
Santa Cruz Islands
Claoxylon sandwicense - Hawaii
Claoxylon sarasinorum - Sulawesi
Claoxylon scabratum - New Guinea
Claoxylon setosum -
Réunion
Claoxylon spathulatum - Philippines
Claoxylon stapfianum - Sarawak, Sabah
Claoxylon subbullatum - Sabah
Claoxylon subsessiliflorum - Vietnam,
Yunnan
Claoxylon subviride - Philippines
Claoxylon taitense -
Society Islands
Claoxylon tenerifolium - Queensland
Claoxylon tenuiflorum -
Aceh
Claoxylon tetracoccum - West New Guinea
Claoxylon tsaratananae - Madagascar
Claoxylon velutinum -
Kalimantan Timur
Claoxylon vitiense - Fiji
Claoxylon wallichianum - Peninsular Malaysia
Claoxylon warburgianum - Sulawesi
Claoxylon winkleri -
Kalimantan Selatan
Formerly included
[1]
moved to other genera (
Acalypha ,
Croton ,
Discoclaoxylon ,
Erythrococca ,
Lobanilia ,
Macaranga ,
Mallotus ,
Micrococca ,
Orfilea )
References
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World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de. 1824. De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 43, pl. 14, f. 43
^ 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.
^ Forster, P.I. (2007). A taxonomic revision of Claoxylon A.Juss. (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7: 451-472.