Bridelia Explained

Bridelia is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.^{[1] [2] [3]} It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.^{[4] [5]}

Bridelia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus.

The genus Bridelia was named in the honor of Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow.^[1]

Species

, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:^[6]

• Bridelia adusta – Sarawak, Sabah
• Bridelia affinis – Yunnan, Hainan, Thailand
• Bridelia assamica – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
• Bridelia atroviridis – tropical Africa
• Bridelia balansae – Nansei-shoto, S China, Indochina, Taiwan
• Bridelia brideliifolia – E + C + SE Africa
• Bridelia cathartica – C + S Africa
• Bridelia cinnamomea – Andaman Is, S Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia
• Bridelia curtisii – Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Sumatra
• Bridelia duvigneaudii – C Africa
• Bridelia eranalis – Zaïre
• Bridelia erapensis – Papua New Guinea
• Bridelia exaltata – Queensland, New South Wales
• Bridelia ferruginea – tropical Africa
• Bridelia finalis – Queensland
• Bridelia fordii Hemsl. – S China to Hainan
• Bridelia glauca – S + SE + E Asia, Papuasia
• Bridelia grandis – W + C Africa
• Bridelia harmandii – Indochina
• Bridelia insulana – SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, Micronesia
• Bridelia leichhardtii – Queensland
• Bridelia macrocarpa – Maluku, New Guinea
• Bridelia micrantha – tropical – S Africa, Réunion
• Bridelia microphylla – Somalia
• Bridelia mollis – southern Africa
• Bridelia montana – India
• Bridelia moonii – Sri Lanka
• Bridelia ndellensis – C Africa
• Bridelia nicobarica – Nicobar Islands
• Bridelia oligantha – Papua New Guinea
• Bridelia ovata Decne. – Indo-China to W. Malesia
• Bridelia parvifolia – Hainan, Vietnam
• Bridelia pervilleana – Madagascar
• Bridelia pustulata – Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
• Bridelia retusa – S China, S + SE Asia
• Bridelia rhomboidalis – Madagascar
• Bridelia ripicola – C Africa
• Bridelia scleroneura – Yemen, tropical Africa
• Bridelia sikkimensis – Himalayas
• Bridelia somalensis – Somalia
• Bridelia speciosa – W Africa
• Bridelia stipularis – S + E + SE Asia
• Bridelia taitensis – Kenya
• Bridelia tenuifolia – Angola, Namibia
• Bridelia tomentosa – S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, Australia
• Bridelia triplocarya – Papua New Guinea
• Bridelia tulasneana – Madagascar
• Bridelia verrucosa – NE India, Himalayas
• Bridelia whitmorei – Pahang
• Bridelia wilksii – Gabon

Formerly included

Moved to other genera (Aporosa, Cleistanthus, Damnacanthus, Phyllanthus, Scleropyrum).^[7]

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/566705#page/347/mode/1up Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 978-979
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40031597 Tropicos
3. Dressler, S. 1996. Proposal to conserve the name Bridelia (Euphorbiaceae) with a conserved spelling. Taxon 45: 337–338
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. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=104621 Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 174 土蜜树属 tu mi shu shu Bridelia Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4: 978. 1806.
6. Web site: Bridelia Willd.. . Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023-02-03 .
7. 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.