Neoboutonia Explained

Neoboutonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1864.^{[1] [2]} It is the only genus in subtribe Neoboutoniinae, and native to tropical Africa.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} It is dioecious.^[8]

Species^[3]

1. Neoboutonia macrocalyx Pax - Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
2. Neoboutonia mannii Benth. & Hook.f. - tropical Africa from Liberia to Mozambique
3. Neoboutonia melleri (Müll.Arg.) Prain - tropical Africa from Nigeria to Mozambique

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15640339#page/351/mode/1up Müller Argoviensis, Johannes. 1864. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 2: 336
2. Web site: Tropicos, Neoboutonia Müll. Arg. . 2014-10-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006121656/http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40026431 . 2014-10-06 . dead .
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=133651 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.
5. Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.
6. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mt. Mulanje, Malawi. Scripta Botanica Belgica 34: 1-199.
7. Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
8. 10.2307/2666174. 2666174. Phylogenetic Considerations of Euphorbiaceae Tribe Aleuritideae. Van Welzen. Peter C.. Stuppy. Wolfgang. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 1999. 86. 4. 894–903.