Euphorbiaceae
Mercurialis

Mercurialis canariensis Obbard & S.A.Harris

First published in Kew Bull. 61: 103 (2006)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Canary Islands. It is an annual and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Canary Is.

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Dobignard, A. & Chatelain, C. (2011). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 3: 1-449. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
  • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin

  • Durand, B. (1963). Le complexe Mercurialis annua L. s.l.: une étude biosystématique. Ann. Sci. Nat, Bot. 12:579-736.
  • Durand, R. & Durand, B. (1984). Sexual differentiation in higher plants. Physiol. Pl. (Copenhagen) 60 : 267 -274.
  • Govaerts, R., Frodin, D. G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. Vol. 3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Gūemas, J. (1997) Mercurialis L. In: S. Castroviejo, C. Aedo, C. Benedí, M. Laínz, F. Muñoz Garmendia, G. Nieto Feliner & J. Paiva (eds), Flora Iberica. Vol. III. Haloragaceae-Euphorbiaceae, pp. 201-210. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
  • Iwata, H. & Ukai, Y. (2002) SHAPE: A computer program package for quantitative analysis of biological shapes based on elliptic Fourier descriptors. J. Heredity 93 : 384 - 385
  • Lloyd, D. G. (1972). Breeding systems in Cotula L. {Compositae, Anthemedae). I. The array of monoclinous and diclinous systems. New Phytol. 71:1181 - 1194.
  • Manly, B. F. J. (1994). Multivariate statistical methods: a primer. Chapman & Hall: London.
  • Obbard, D. J. (2004). Genetic variation and sexual- system evolution in the annual mercuries. D. Phil. Thesis, University of Oxford.
  • Pax, F. (1914). Das Pflanzenreich. IV.147.VII. Euphorbiaceae-Acalypheae-Mercurialinae. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig & Berlin.
  • Tutin, T. G. (1968) Mercurialis L. In: T. G. Tutin, V. H. Heywood, N. A. Burgess, D. M. Moore, D. H. Valentine, S. M. Walters & D. A. Webb (eds.), Flora Europaea. Vol. 2. Rosaceae to Umbellifereae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • — & — (1992). Dioecy, monoecy, polyploidy and speciation in annual Mercuries. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Lett. Bot. 139 : 377 - 399.
  • —&— (1985). Mercurialis. Pp. 376 - 387. In: A. H. Halevey (ed.), CRC Handbook of Flowering. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0