Astrocasia Explained

Astrocasia is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1905.^[1] It is included in the subtribe Astrocasiinae. It is native to Mesoamerica, northern South America, and the western part of the West Indies.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} Plants are mostly dioecious, except for Astrocasia diegoae which is monoecious, and some individuals of A. neurocarpa and A. tremula.^[8]

Species^[2]

1. Astrocasia austinii (Standl.) G.L.Webster - Izabal
2. Astrocasia diegoae J.Jiménez Ram. & Mart.Gord. - Guerrero
3. Astrocasia jacobinensis (Müll.Arg.) G.L.Webster - Bahia, Bolivia
4. Astrocasia neurocarpa (Müll.Arg.) I.M.Johnst. ex Standl. - Oaxaca, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas
5. Astrocasia peltata Standl. - Costa Rica, Nayarit, Jalisco
6. Astrocasia tremula (Griseb.) G.L.Webster - Mexico (Jalisco, Veracruz, Yucatán Peninsula), Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama), West Indies (Cayman Is, Jamaica, Cuba), northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, possibly Brazil)

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/698#page/421/mode/1up Robinson, Benjamin Lincoln & Millspaugh, Charles Frederick. 1905. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 36(Beibl.80): 19-20
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=17591 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. 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.
4. González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394.
5. Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
6. Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144
7. Calderón Sanou, I. 2014. Primer registro de Astrocasia peltata (Euphorbiaceae) en Costa Rica. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 8(1): 165–168
8. 10.21829/abm55.2001.869. Una especie nueva del género Astrocasia (Euphorbiaceae) del estado de Guerrero, México. 2001. Jiménez Ramírez. Jaime. Martínez Gordillo. Martha. Acta Botanica Mexicana. 55. 1. free.