Daphniphyllum

Daphniphyllum is the sole genus in the flowering plant family Daphniphyllaceae and was described as a genus in 1826.[4][5] The genus includes evergreen shrubs and trees mainly native to east and southeast Asia, but also found in the Indian Subcontinent and New Guinea.[3]

Daphniphyllum
Daphniphyllum teijsmannii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Daphniphyllaceae
Müll.Arg.[1]
Genus: Daphniphyllum
Blume[2]
Type species
Daphniphyllum glaucescens
Synonyms[3]
  • Gyrandra Wall. not validly published
  • Goughia Wight

All species in the family are dioecious, that is male and female flowers are borne on different plants.[2] In older classifications the genus was treated in the family Euphorbiaceae.

Daphniphyllum species are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the engrailed (Ectropis sp.).

Accepted species[3]
  1. Daphniphyllum atrobadium - Hainan
  2. Daphniphyllum beddomei - Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  3. Daphniphyllum borneense - Borneo
  4. Daphniphyllum buchananiifolium - Philippines
  5. Daphniphyllum calycinum - S China, Japan, Vietnam
  6. Daphniphyllum celebense - Sulawesi
  7. Daphniphyllum ceramense - Maluku
  8. Daphniphyllum chartaceum - Himalayas, Myanmar
  9. Daphniphyllum dichotomum - Sabah, Sarawak
  10. Daphniphyllum glaucescens - Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Is
  11. Daphniphyllum gracile - Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bismarck
  12. Daphniphyllum griffithianum - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
  13. Daphniphyllum himalense - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan
  14. Daphniphyllum luzonense - Philippines, Lan Yü
  15. Daphniphyllum macropodum - Japan, S China, Korea
  16. Daphniphyllum majus - Yunnan, Indochina
  17. Daphniphyllum neilgherrense - S India, Sri Lanka
  18. Daphniphyllum papuanum - New Guinea
  19. Daphniphyllum parvifolium - Luzon
  20. Daphniphyllum paxianum - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guanxi, Laos
  21. Daphniphyllum pentandrum - S China, Indochina
  22. Daphniphyllum scortechinii - Perak
  23. Daphniphyllum subverticillatum - Guangdong
  24. Daphniphyllum sumatraense - Sumatra
  25. Daphniphyllum teijsmannii - Japan, Jeju-do, Nansei-shoto
  26. Daphniphyllum timorianum - Timor
  27. Daphniphyllum woodsonianum - Sumatra
  28. Daphniphyllum yunnanense - Yunnan
Synonyms

References
  1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2013-06-26.
  2. Min, Tianlu & Kubitzki, Klaus, "Daphniphyllaceae", in Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.), Flora of China (online), eFloras.org, retrieved 2016-12-03
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Blume, Carl Ludwig von. 1826. Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië 1152-1153 in Latin
  5. Tropicos, Daphniphyllum Blume
  6. WCSP 2019.

Bibliography
  • WCSP. "Daphniphyllum humile Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  • Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan, 1984. ISBN 978-0-87474-708-9
  • Woody Plants of Japan, Vol. 2, 2000. ISBN 4-635-07004-2
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