Necepsia

Necepsia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Bernardieae
Genus: Necepsia
Prain
Type species
Necepsia afzelii
Prain
Synonyms[1]

Necepsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910.[2][3] It is native to Madagascar and to tropical Africa.[1][4]

Species[1]
  1. Necepsia afzelii Prain - Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Cabinda, Gabon
  2. Necepsia castaneifolia (Baill.) Bouchat & J.Léonard - Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Madagascar
  3. Necepsia zairensis Bouchat & J.Léonard - Congo, Zaire

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Prain, David. 1910. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1910: 343 in Latin
  3. Tropicos, genus Necepsia
  4. 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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