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This species is accepted, and its native range is W. Tropical Africa.

[FWTA]

Euphorbiaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:2. 1958

Morphology General Habit
A forest shrub or tree, 10–30 ft. high
Morphology General Spines
Branchlets armed with spines
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers tinged pink
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits bilobed, hall-succulent, pink or red, dusted with sticky golden glands.

Native to:

Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

Macaranga heterophylla (Müll.Arg.) Müll.Arg. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Milne-Redhead, E. [5186], Sierra Leone 15818.000
Welwitsch [464], Guinea-Bissau K000425805 Unknown type material

First published in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(2): 993 (1866)

Accepted by

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
  • 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.
  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Boulvert, Y. (1977). Catalogue de la Flore de Centrafrique 1: 1-114. ORSTOM, Bangui.

Literature

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Aubrév. Fl. For. C. Iv. 2: 70.
  • Chev. Bot. 580
  • Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euph. 7: 314
  • —F.T.A. 6, 1: 936

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.

Flora of West Tropical Africa
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