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 | |
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| Daphniphyllum teijsmannii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Daphniphyllaceae Müll.Arg.[2] |
| Genus: | Daphniphyllum Blume[1] |
| Type species | |
| Daphniphyllum glaucescens | |
| Synonyms[3] | |
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All species in the family are dioecious, that is male and female flowers are borne on different plants.[1] 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]
- Daphniphyllum atrobadium - Hainan
- Daphniphyllum beddomei - Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Daphniphyllum borneense - Borneo
- Daphniphyllum buchananiifolium - Philippines
- Daphniphyllum calycinum - S China, Vietnam
- Daphniphyllum celebense - Sulawesi
- Daphniphyllum ceramense - Maluku
- Daphniphyllum chartaceum - Himalayas, Myanmar
- Daphniphyllum dichotomum - Sabah, Sarawak
- Daphniphyllum glaucescens - Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Is
- Daphniphyllum gracile - Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bismarck
- Daphniphyllum griffithianum - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
- Daphniphyllum himalense - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan
- Daphniphyllum luzonense - Philippines, Lan Yü
- Daphniphyllum macropodum - Japan, S China, Korea
- Daphniphyllum majus - Yunnan, Indochina
- Daphniphyllum neilgherrense - S India, Sri Lanka
- Daphniphyllum papuanum - New Guinea
- Daphniphyllum parvifolium - Luzon
- Daphniphyllum paxianum - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guanxi, Laos
- Daphniphyllum pentandrum - S China, Indochina
- Daphniphyllum scortechinii - Perak
- Daphniphyllum subverticillatum - Guangdong
- Daphniphyllum sumatraense - Sumatra
- Daphniphyllum teijsmannii - Japan, Jeju-do, Nansei-shoto
- Daphniphyllum timorianum - Timor
- Daphniphyllum woodsonianum - Sumatra
- Daphniphyllum yunnanense - Yunnan
- Synonyms
- Daphniphyllum humile Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav. (Daphniphyllum macropodum)[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Min, Tianlu & Kubitzki, Klaus, "Daphniphyllaceae", in Wu, Zhengyi; Raven, Peter H. & Hong, Deyuan (eds.), Flora of China (online), eFloras.org, retrieved 2016-12-03
- ^ 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. hdl:10654/18083.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Blume, Carl Ludwig von. 1826. Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië 1152-1153 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Daphniphyllum Blume
- ^ WCSP 2019.
Bibliography
edit- 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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