Acalypha bailloniana Muell .Arg., Linnaea 34: 44. 1865.

Munoz, Iris Montero, Cardiel, Jose Maria & Levin, Geoffrey A., 2018, Nomenclatural review of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) of the Western Indian Ocean Region (Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, the Mascarene Islands and the Seychelles Archipelago), PhytoKeys 108, pp. 85-116 : 85

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.108.27284

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scientific name

Acalypha bailloniana Muell .Arg., Linnaea 34: 44. 1865.
status

 

1. Acalypha bailloniana Muell.Arg., Linnaea 34: 44. 1865.

Ricinocarpus baillonianus ( Müll.Arg.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 617. 1891.

Acalypha indica var. bailloniana ( Müll.Arg.) Hutch., Fl. Trop. Afr. 6(1): 904. 1912.

Type.

Tanzania: Zanzibar: s.l., 1848, L. H. Boivin s.n. (holotype: P [P04809900]!).

Distribution.

East Tropical Africa. Comoros Archipelago (Anjouan).

Notes.

Acalypha bailloniana was considered as a subspecies of A. indica L. by Hutchinson (1913) and this treatment was followed in the subsequent floristic works. Radcliffe-Smith (1987, 1996) treated A. bailloniana as a synonym of A. indica . We consider that A. bailloniana is a distinct species which can be distinguished from A. indica by its dentante bracts with a prominent central tooth and with glandular hairs (vs. subentire bracts without prominent central tooth and without glandular hairs, in A. indica ). A. bailloniana is distributed in the east coast of tropical Africa and cited for the WIOR region for the first time, where it is probably introduced.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Euphorbiaceae

Genus

Acalypha

Loc

Acalypha bailloniana Muell .Arg., Linnaea 34: 44. 1865.

Munoz, Iris Montero, Cardiel, Jose Maria & Levin, Geoffrey A. 2018
2018
Loc

Ricinocarpus baillonianus

Kuntze 1891
1891