Lasiocroton

Lasiocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1859.[1][2] The genus is endemic to the West Indies.[3][4][5] It is a member of the Leucocroton alliance, which also includes Leucocroton and Garciadelia. Species in this alliance are dioecious.[6]

Species[3]
  1. Lasiocroton bahamensis Pax & K.Hoffm. - Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti
  2. Lasiocroton fawcettii Urb. - Jamaica
  3. Lasiocroton gracilis Britton & P.Wilson - SE Cuba
  4. Lasiocroton gutierrezii Jestrow - Cuba
  5. Lasiocroton harrisii Britton - Jamaica
  6. Lasiocroton macrophyllus (Sw.) Griseb. - Jamaica
  7. Lasiocroton microphyllus (A.Rich.) Jestrow - Cuba
formerly included[3]
  1. moved to other genera (Bernardia Croton Leucocroton)
  2. Lasiocroton cordifolius Britton & P.Wilson - Leucocroton cordifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Alain
  3. Lasiocroton prunifolius Griseb. - Croton punctatus Jacq.
  4. Lasiocroton subpeltatus Urb. - Leucocroton subpeltatus (Urb.) Alain
  5. Lasiocroton trelawniensis C.D.Adams - Bernardia trelawniensis (C.D.Adams) Jestrow & Proctor

Lasiocroton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Adelieae
Genus: Lasiocroton
Griseb.

References
  1. August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach. 1859. Flora of the British West Indian Islands 46
  2. Tropicos
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  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.
  5. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  6. Jestrow, Brett; Gutiérrez Amaro, Jorge; Francisco-Ortega, Javier (2012). "Islands within islands: A molecular phylogenetic study of the Leucocroton alliance (Euphorbiaceae) across the Caribbean Islands and within the serpentinite archipelago of Cuba". Journal of Biogeography. 39 (3): 452–464. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02607.x.
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