Hura (plant) explained

Hura is a genus of trees in the family Euphorbiaceae described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.^{[1] [2]} It is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Species

1. Hura crepitans L. - from Nicaragua + Bahamas south to Bolivia; naturalized in parts of Africa (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Central African Republic)^[3]
2. Hura polyandra Baill. - Mexico, Central America, Ecuador^[3]

Names in homonymic genus

In 1783, Johann Gerhard König used the name Hura to refer to a very different plant from the one Linnaeus had named. Thus was created an illegitimate homonym.^{[8] [9]} Under the rules of nomenclature, Koenig's name had to be abandoned. The two names created using his genus are now in the genus Globba, as follows:

1. Hura koenigii - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)^{[10] [9]}
2. Hura siamensium - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)^{[10] [9]}

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359029#page/450/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1008
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028422 Tropicos, Hura L.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=100849 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura L.
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. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil Web site: Archived copy . 2015-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ . 2015-09-06 . . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
6. 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.
7. 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
8. in Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1783 Observationes Botanicae 3: 37 ("49").
9. Web site: Tropicos - Name - *Hura J. Koenig. www.tropicos.org. 19 February 2019.
10. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=100848 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius