Daphniphyllum

 Daphniphyllum is the sole genus in the flowering plant family Daphniphyllaceae and was described as a genus in 1826.[4][5] The genus includes evergreen shrubs and trees mainly native to east and southeast Asia, but also found in the Indian Subcontinent and New Guinea.[3]

Daphniphyllum
Daphniphyllum teijsmannii2.jpg
Daphniphyllum teijsmannii
Scientific classificatione
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Tracheophytes
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Saxifragales
Family:Daphniphyllaceae
Müll.Arg.[2]
Genus:Daphniphyllum
Blume[1]
Type species
Daphniphyllum glaucescens
Blume
Synonyms[3]
  • Gyrandra Wall. not validly published
  • Goughia Wight

All species in the family are dioecious, that is male and female flowers are borne on different plants.[1] In older classifications the genus was treated in the family Euphorbiaceae.

Daphniphyllum species are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the engrailed (Ectropis sp.).

Accepted species[3]
  1. Daphniphyllum atrobadium - Hainan
  2. Daphniphyllum beddomei - Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  3. Daphniphyllum borneense - Borneo
  4. Daphniphyllum buchananiifolium - Philippines
  5. Daphniphyllum calycinum - S China, Vietnam
  6. Daphniphyllum celebense - Sulawesi
  7. Daphniphyllum ceramense - Maluku
  8. Daphniphyllum chartaceum - Himalayas, Myanmar
  9. Daphniphyllum dichotomum - Sabah, Sarawak
  10. Daphniphyllum glaucescens - Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Is
  11. Daphniphyllum gracile - Sulawesi, New Guinea, Bismarck
  12. Daphniphyllum griffithianum - Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
  13. Daphniphyllum himalense - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan
  14. Daphniphyllum luzonense - Philippines, Lan Yü
  15. Daphniphyllum macropodum - Japan, S China, Korea
  16. Daphniphyllum majus - Yunnan, Indochina
  17. Daphniphyllum neilgherrense - S India, Sri Lanka
  18. Daphniphyllum papuanum - New Guinea
  19. Daphniphyllum parvifolium - Luzon
  20. Daphniphyllum paxianum - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guanxi, Laos
  21. Daphniphyllum pentandrum - S China, Indochina
  22. Daphniphyllum scortechinii - Perak
  23. Daphniphyllum subverticillatum - Guangdong
  24. Daphniphyllum sumatraense - Sumatra
  25. Daphniphyllum teijsmannii - Japan, Jeju-do, Nansei-shoto
  26. Daphniphyllum timorianum - Timor
  27. Daphniphyllum woodsonianum - Sumatra
  28. Daphniphyllum yunnanense - Yunnan
Synonyms
  • Daphniphyllum humile Maxim. ex Franch. & Sav. (Daphniphyllum macropodum)[6]

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