Bonania Explained

Bonania is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1850.[1] [2] It is native to the West Indies.[3] [4]

species[3]
  1. Bonania cubana A.Rich. - Bahamas, Cuba
  2. Bonania domingensis (Urb.) Urb. - Haiti, Dominican Rep
  3. Bonania elliptica Urb. - Cuba
  4. Bonania emarginata C.Wright ex Griseb. - Cuba
  5. Bonania erythrosperma (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. - Cuba
  6. Bonania linearifolia Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
  7. Bonania myricifolia (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f. - Guantánamo but extinct
formerly included[3] moved to Sapium

Notes and References

  1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9306487#page/198/mode/1up Richard, Achille. 1850. in Sagra, Ramón de la, Historia Física Política y Natural de la Isla de Cuba, Botánica 11: 201
  2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40029211 Tropicos, Bonania R. Richard in Sagra
  3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=22912 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.