Hura (plant)
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| Hura crepitans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Euphorbioideae |
| Tribe: | Hureae |
| Genus: | Hura L. |
| Species | |
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Hura is a genus of trees in the family Euphorbiaceae described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[1][2] It is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies.[3][4][5][6][7]
Species[edit]
- Hura crepitans L. - from Nicaragua + Bahamas south to Bolivia; naturalized in parts of Africa (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Central African Republic)[3]
- Hura polyandra Baill. - Mexico, Central America, Ecuador[3]
Names in homonymic genus[edit]
In 1783, Johann Gerhard König used the name Hura to refer to a very different plant from the one Linnaeus had named. Thus was created an illegitimate homonym.[8][9] Under the rules of nomenclature, Koenig's name had to be abandoned. The two names created using his genus are now in the genus Globba, as follows:
- Hura koenigii - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)[10][9]
- Hura siamensium - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)[10][9]
References[edit]
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1008 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Hura L.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura L.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - ^ Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
- ^ González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394
- ^ in Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1783 Observationes Botanicae 3: 37 ("49").
- ^ a b c "Tropicos - Name - *Hura J. Koenig". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ a b http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=100848 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius
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