Margaritaria

Margaritaria
Margaritaria discoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily: Phyllanthoideae
Tribe: Phyllantheae
Genus: Margaritaria
L.f. 1782 not L. 1775 (the latter not validly published)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Margaritaria is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae first published as a genus in 1782.[3][4] It is the smallest pantropical genus of the Phyllanthaceae and, formerly, of the Euphorbiaceae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, and various oceanic islands.[2][5]

Species[2]
  1. ^ Tropicos, Margaritaria L.
  2. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von Jr. 1782. Supplementum Plantarum 66-67, 428.
  4. ^ Tropicos, Margaritaria L.f.
  5. ^ 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.