Bridelia

Genus of flowering plants

Bridelia
Bridelia retusa[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily: Phyllanthoideae
Tribe: Bridelieae
Subtribe: Pseudolachnostylidinae
Genus: Bridelia
Willd.
Synonyms[2]
  • Candelabria Hochst.
  • Gentilia A.Chev. & Beille
  • Pentameria Klotzsch ex Baill.
  • Tzellemtinia Chiov.
  • Neogoetzea Pax

Bridelia is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.[3][4][5] It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[2][6][7]

Bridelia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus.

The genus Bridelia was named in the honor of Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow.[3]

Species

As of February 2023[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[8]

  • Bridelia adusta – Sarawak, Sabah
  • Bridelia affinis – Yunnan, Hainan, Thailand
  • Bridelia assamica – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
  • Bridelia atroviridis – tropical Africa
  • Bridelia balansae – Nansei-shoto, S China, Indochina, Taiwan
  • Bridelia brideliifolia – E + C + SE Africa
  • Bridelia cathartica – C + S Africa
  • Bridelia cinnamomea – Andaman Is, S Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia
  • Bridelia curtisii – Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Sumatra
  • Bridelia duvigneaudii – C Africa
  • Bridelia eranalis – Zaïre
  • Bridelia erapensis – Papua New Guinea
  • Bridelia exaltata – Queensland, New South Wales
  • Bridelia ferruginea – tropical Africa
  • Bridelia finalis – Queensland
  • Bridelia fordii Hemsl. – S China to Hainan
  • Bridelia glauca – S + SE + E Asia, Papuasia
  • Bridelia grandis – W + C Africa
  • Bridelia harmandii – Indochina
  • Bridelia insulana – SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, Micronesia
  • Bridelia leichhardtii – Queensland
  • Bridelia macrocarpa – Maluku, New Guinea
  • Bridelia micrantha – tropical – S Africa, Réunion
  • Bridelia microphylla – Somalia
  • Bridelia mollis – southern Africa
  • Bridelia montana – India
  • Bridelia moonii – Sri Lanka
  • Bridelia ndellensis – C Africa
  • Bridelia nicobarica – Nicobar Islands
  • Bridelia oligantha – Papua New Guinea
  • Bridelia ovata Decne. – Indo-China to W. Malesia
  • Bridelia parvifolia – Hainan, Vietnam
  • Bridelia pervilleana – Madagascar
  • Bridelia pustulata – Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
  • Bridelia retusa – S China, S + SE Asia
  • Bridelia rhomboidalis – Madagascar
  • Bridelia ripicola – C Africa
  • Bridelia scleroneura – Yemen, tropical Africa
  • Bridelia sikkimensis – Himalayas
  • Bridelia somalensis – Somalia
  • Bridelia speciosa – W Africa
  • Bridelia stipularis – S + E + SE Asia
  • Bridelia taitensis – Kenya
  • Bridelia tenuifolia – Angola, Namibia
  • Bridelia tomentosa – S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, Australia
  • Bridelia triplocarya – Papua New Guinea
  • Bridelia tulasneana – Madagascar
  • Bridelia verrucosa – NE India, Himalayas
  • Bridelia whitmorei – Pahang
  • Bridelia wilksii – Gabon

Formerly included

Moved to other genera (Aporosa, Cleistanthus, Damnacanthus, Phyllanthus, Scleropyrum).[2]

  1. B. acuminata - Phyllanthus triandrus
  2. B. attenuata - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
  3. B. buxifolia - Cleistanthus stipitatus
  4. B. chartacea - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
  5. B. collina - Cleistanthus collinus
  6. B. diversifolia - Cleistanthus diversifolius
  7. B. heterantha - Phyllanthus glomerulatus
  8. B. horrida - Scleropyrum pentandrum[9]
  9. B. laurina - Cleistanthus stipitatus
  10. B. loureiroi - Cleistanthus monoicus
  11. B. monoica - Cleistanthus monoicus
  12. B. oblongifolius - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
  13. B. patula - Cleistanthus patulus
  14. B. polystachya - Cleistanthus polystachyus
  15. B. rufa - Cleistanthus rufus
  16. B. rugosa - Aporosa lunata
  17. B. sinica - Phyllanthus hohenackeri
  18. B. spinosa DC. 1833 not (Roxb.) Willd. 1806 - Damnacanthus indicus
  19. B. stipitata - Cleistanthus stipitatus
  20. B. stipularis Hook. & Arn. 1837 not (L.) Blume 1826 - Cleistanthus stipularis
Bridelia retusa bark
Bridelia retusa leaves

References

  1. ^ 1874 illustration, tab. 55 of D. Brandis, Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India, 1874
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  3. ^ a b Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 978-979 in Latin
  4. ^ Tropicos
  5. ^ Dressler, S. 1996. Proposal to conserve the name Bridelia (Euphorbiaceae) with a conserved spelling. Taxon 45: 337–338
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 174 土蜜树属 tu mi shu shu Bridelia Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4: 978. 1806.
  8. ^ "Bridelia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  9. ^ The Plant List, Bridelia horrida Dillwyn
Taxon identifiers
Bridelia


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