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Genus of flowering plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Hura | |
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Hura crepitans | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
Subfamily: | Euphorbioideae |
Tribe: | Hureae |
Genus: | Hura L. |
Species | |
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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:
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