Bridelia

Bridelia is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.^[3][4][5] It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.^[2][6][7]

Bridelia
Bridelia retusa[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily:	Phyllanthoideae
Tribe:	Bridelieae
Subtribe:	Pseudolachnostylidinae
Genus:	Bridelia Willd.
Synonyms[2]
Candelabria Hochst. Gentilia A.Chev. & Beille Pentameria Klotzsch ex Baill. Tzellemtinia Chiov. Neogoetzea Pax

Bridelia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus.

The genus Bridelia was named in the honor of Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow.^[3]

Species

As of February 2023^[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:^[8]

• Bridelia adusta – Sarawak, Sabah
• Bridelia affinis – Yunnan, Hainan, Thailand
• Bridelia assamica – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
• Bridelia atroviridis – tropical Africa
• Bridelia balansae – Nansei-shoto, S China, Indochina, Taiwan
• Bridelia brideliifolia – E + C + SE Africa
• Bridelia cathartica – C + S Africa
• Bridelia cinnamomea – Andaman Is, S Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia
• Bridelia curtisii – Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Sumatra
• Bridelia duvigneaudii – C Africa
• Bridelia eranalis – Zaïre
• Bridelia erapensis – Papua New Guinea
• Bridelia exaltata – Queensland, New South Wales
• Bridelia ferruginea – tropical Africa
• Bridelia finalis – Queensland
• Bridelia fordii Hemsl. – S China to Hainan
• Bridelia glauca – S + SE + E Asia, Papuasia
• Bridelia grandis – W + C Africa
• Bridelia harmandii – Indochina
• Bridelia insulana – SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, Micronesia
• Bridelia leichhardtii – Queensland
• Bridelia macrocarpa – Maluku, New Guinea
• Bridelia micrantha – tropical – S Africa, Réunion
• Bridelia microphylla – Somalia
• Bridelia mollis – southern Africa
• Bridelia montana – India
• Bridelia moonii – Sri Lanka
• Bridelia ndellensis – C Africa
• Bridelia nicobarica – Nicobar Islands
• Bridelia oligantha – Papua New Guinea
• Bridelia ovata Decne. – Indo-China to W. Malesia
• Bridelia parvifolia – Hainan, Vietnam
• Bridelia pervilleana – Madagascar
• Bridelia pustulata – Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
• Bridelia retusa – S China, S + SE Asia
• Bridelia rhomboidalis – Madagascar
• Bridelia ripicola – C Africa
• Bridelia scleroneura – Yemen, tropical Africa
• Bridelia sikkimensis – Himalayas
• Bridelia somalensis – Somalia
• Bridelia speciosa – W Africa
• Bridelia stipularis – S + E + SE Asia
• Bridelia taitensis – Kenya
• Bridelia tenuifolia – Angola, Namibia
• Bridelia tomentosa – S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, Australia
• Bridelia triplocarya – Papua New Guinea
• Bridelia tulasneana – Madagascar
• Bridelia verrucosa – NE India, Himalayas
• Bridelia whitmorei – Pahang
• Bridelia wilksii – Gabon

Formerly included

Moved to other genera (Aporosa, Cleistanthus, Damnacanthus, Phyllanthus, Scleropyrum).^[2]

1. B. acuminata - Phyllanthus triandrus
2. B. attenuata - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
3. B. buxifolia - Cleistanthus stipitatus
4. B. chartacea - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
5. B. collina - Cleistanthus collinus
6. B. diversifolia - Cleistanthus diversifolius
7. B. heterantha - Phyllanthus glomerulatus
8. B. horrida - Scleropyrum pentandrum^[9]
9. B. laurina - Cleistanthus stipitatus
10. B. loureiroi - Cleistanthus monoicus
11. B. monoica - Cleistanthus monoicus
12. B. oblongifolius - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
13. B. patula - Cleistanthus patulus
14. B. polystachya - Cleistanthus polystachyus
15. B. rufa - Cleistanthus rufus
16. B. rugosa - Aporosa lunata
17. B. sinica - Phyllanthus hohenackeri
18. B. spinosa DC. 1833 not (Roxb.) Willd. 1806 - Damnacanthus indicus
19. B. stipitata - Cleistanthus stipitatus
20. B. stipularis Hook. & Arn. 1837 not (L.) Blume 1826 - Cleistanthus stipularis

Bridelia retusa bark

Bridelia retusa leaves

References

1. 1874 illustration, tab. 55 of D. Brandis, Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India, 1874
2. 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.
3. Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 978-979 in Latin
4. Tropicos
5. Dressler, S. 1996. Proposal to conserve the name Bridelia (Euphorbiaceae) with a conserved spelling. Taxon 45: 337–338
6. 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.
7. Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 174 土蜜树属 tu mi shu shu Bridelia Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4: 978. 1806.
8. "Bridelia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
9. The Plant List, Bridelia horrida Dillwyn