Cephalocrotonopsis

Cephalocrotonopsis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910.[3][4] It contains only one known species, Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus, endemic to the Socotra Islands in the Indian Ocean, part of the Republic of Yemen.[2][5]

Cephalocrotonopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Epiprineae
Subtribe: Epiprininae
Genus: Cephalocrotonopsis
Pax
Species:
C. socotranus
Binomial name
Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus
Synonyms[2]

Cephalocroton socotranus Balf.f.

The species is listed as vulnerable.[1]

References

  1. Miller, A. 2004. Cephalocroton socotranus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Archived June 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Downloaded on 21 August 2007.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf. 1910. Das Pflanzenreich IV. 147 II(Heft 44): 15
  4. Tropicos, genus Cephalocrotonopsis
  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.


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