Brasiliocroton

Brasiliocroton is a monotypic plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae. The plant was first described in 2005 from lowland forests in eastern and northeastern Brazil, whence its name.^[1]

Brasiliocroton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Crotonoideae
Tribe:	Crotoneae
Genus:	Brasiliocroton P.E.Berry & Cordeiro
Species:	B. mamoninha
Binomial name
Brasiliocroton mamoninha P.E.Berry & Cordeiro

There are two species in the genus: Brasiliocroton mamoninha and Brasiliocroton muricatus, which can be distinguished by the flowers, fruit, pollen, among others.^[2][3]

References

1. Paul E. Berry; Inês Cordeiro; Alex C. Wiedenhoeft; Maria Amélia Vitorino-Cruz; Letícia Ribes de Lima (2005). "Brasiliocroton, a New Crotonoid Genus of Euphorbiaceae s.s. from Eastern Brazil". Systematic Botany. 30 (2): 357–365. doi:10.1600/0363644054223585.
2. Riina, Ricarda; Carneiro-Torres, Daniela S.; Peirson, Jess A.; Berry, Paul E.; Cordeiro, Inês (2014-03-01). "Further Support for the Crotoneae Phylogeny: A New Species of Brasiliocroton (Euphorbiaceae) Based on Morphological, Geographical, and Molecular Evidence". Systematic Botany (1): 227–234. doi:10.1600/036364414x678170. hdl:10261/169150. ISSN 0363-6445. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
3. Souza, Lidian Ribeiro de; Santos, Francisco de Assis Ribeiro dos; Carneiro-Torres, Daniela Santos (2019-09-12). "Pollen morphology and exine ultrastructure of Brasiliocroton P.E. Berry & Cordeiro (Euphorbiaceae)". Acta Botanica Brasilica: 584–591. doi:10.1590/0102-33062019abb0183. ISSN 0102-3306. Retrieved 2024-09-10.