Euphorbiaceae
Croton

Croton imbricatus L.R.Lima & Pirani

First published in Kew Bull. 63: 122 (2008)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Brazil (Bahia). It is a subshrub or shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Brazil Northeast

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

  • Airy Shaw, H. K. (1980). Euphorbiaceae of New Guinea. HMSO, London.
  • Berry, P. E. (1999). Croton. In: P. E. Berry et al. (eds), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana 5: 111 – 133. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Saint Louis.
  • Berry, P. E. , Cordeiro, I., Wiedenhoeft, A. C., Vittorino-Cruz, M. A. & Lima, L. R. (2005a). Brasiliocroton, a new crotonoid genus of Euphorbiaceaes.s. from Eastern Brazil. Syst. Bot. 30: 357 – 365.
  • Berry, P. E. , Hipp, A. L., Wurdack, K. J., Ee, B. V. & Riina, R. (2005b). Molecular phylogenetics of the giant genus Croton and tribe Crotonae (Euphorbiaceaesensustricto) using ITS and trnL-trnF DNA sequence data. Amer. J. Bot. 92: 1520 – 1534.
  • Chakrabarty, T. & Balakrishnan, N. P. (1997). A revision of Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) for the Indian subcontinent. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 34: 1 – 88.
  • Cordeiro, I. (1992). Flora da Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais: Euphorbiaceae. Bol. Bot. Univ. São Paulo 13: 169 – 217.
  • Cordeiro, I. (1995). Euphorbiaceae. In: B. L. Stannard (ed.) Flora of the Pico das Almas, Chapada Diamantina — Bahia, Brasil, 300 – 317. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Forster, P. I. (2003). A taxonomic revision of Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 6: 349 – 436.
  • Govaerts, R., Frodin, D. G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World checklist and bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. 4 vols. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Hooker, J. D. (1890). Croton. Fl. Brit. India 5: 385 – 395. L. Reeve & Co., London.
  • Lima, L. R. & Pirani, J. R. (2003). O gênero Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) naCadeia do Espinhaço, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Bol. Bot. Univ. São Paulo 21: 299 – 344.
  • Mueller, J. (1866). In: A. L. L. P. de Candolle (ed.), Prodromussystematisnaturalisregnivegetabilis 15 (2): 189 – 1260. Masson, Paris.
  • Philcox, D. (1997). Euphorbiaceae. In: M. D. Dassanayake & W. D. Clayton (eds), A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon 11: 80 – 283. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • Radcliffe-Smith, A. R. (1996). Euphorbiaceae. In: G. V. Pope (ed.), Flora Zambesiaca 9 (4): 1 – 337. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Secco, R. S. S. & Rosa, N. A. (1992). Croton ascendens (Euphorbiaceae), a new liana from Eastern Amazonia. Novon 2: 252 – 254.
  • Webster, G. L. (1992). Realignments in American Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Novon 2: 269 – 273.
  • ____ (1873). Euphorbiaceae. In: C. F. P. Martius (ed.), Flora Brasiliensis 11 (2): 1 – 715. R. Oldenburg, Leipzig.
  • ____ (1993). A provisional synopsis of the sections of the genus Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Taxon 42: 793 – 823.
  • ____ (1997). Euphorbiaceae (Part 1). In: R. M. Polhill (ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  • ____ (2001). Synopsis of Croton and Phyllanthus (Euphorbiaceae) in western tropical Mexico. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 23: 353 – 388.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0