Cleistanthus
| Cleistanthus | |
|---|---|
   | |
| Cleistanthus orgyialis[1] | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Eudicots | 
| Clade: | Rosids | 
| Order: | Malpighiales | 
| Family: | Phyllanthaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Phyllanthoideae | 
| Tribe: | Bridelieae | 
| Subtribe: | Pseudolachnostylidinae | 
| Genus: | Hook.f. ex Planch.  | 
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Cleistanthus is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae, tribe Bridelieae, first described as a genus in 1848.[3][4] It is widespread in much of the Old World Tropics in Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.[2][5][6] Cleistanthus collinus is known for being toxic and may be the agent of homicides or suicides.[7]
- Species[2]
 
- Cleistanthus acuminatus – Sri Lanka
 - Cleistanthus andamanicus – Andaman Islands
 - Cleistanthus angustifolius – Luzon
 - Cleistanthus annamensis – Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus apodus – Queensland, eastern New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus bakonensis – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus balakrishnanii – Nicobar Islands
 - Cleistanthus bambidianus – Gabon
 - Cleistanthus baramicus – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus beccarianus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus bipindensis – Central Africa
 - Cleistanthus boivinianus – Madagascar
 - Cleistanthus bracteosus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus bracteosus – Indonesia, Philippines
 - Cleistanthus capuronii – eastern Madagascar
 - Cleistanthus carolinianus – Palau
 - Cleistanthus caudatus – Central Africa
 - Cleistanthus celebicus – Sabah, Sulawesi
 - Cleistanthus chlorocarpus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus collinus – Indian Subcontinent
 - Cleistanthus concinnus – Hainan, Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus contractus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah
 - Cleistanthus coriaceus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus cunninghamii – Queensland, New South Wales
 - Cleistanthus curtisii – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus dallachyanus – Queensland, Northern Territory
 - Cleistanthus decurrens – Thailand, Philippines, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus denudatus – Thailand
 - Cleistanthus discolor – Queensland
 - †Cleistanthus diversifolius – ?
 - Cleistanthus dolichophyllus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus duvipermaniorum – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
 - Cleistanthus eberhardtii – Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus ellipticus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus elongatus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus erycibifolius – Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Negros
 - Cleistanthus everettii – Borneo, Philippines
 - Cleistanthus evrardii – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
 - Cleistanthus ferrugineus – Sri Lanka
 - Cleistanthus flavescens – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus floricola – Flores
 - Cleistanthus gabonensis – Gabon
 - Cleistanthus glaber – Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Mindanao
 - Cleistanthus glabratus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus glandulosus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Sumatra
 - Cleistanthus gracilis – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo
 - Cleistanthus helferi – Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar
 - Cleistanthus hirsutopetalus – Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore
 - Cleistanthus hirsutulus – Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo, Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus hylandii – Queensland
 - Cleistanthus indochinensis – Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus inglorius – Papua New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus insignis – Morobe
 - Cleistanthus insularis – Palau
 - Cleistanthus inundatus – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Angola
 - Cleistanthus isabellinus – Sabah, Philippines, New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus itsoghensis – Central Africa
 - Cleistanthus jacobsianus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus kingii – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus kwangensis – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
 - Cleistanthus langkawiensis – Langkawi
 - Cleistanthus lanuginosus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus letouzeyi – Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
 - Cleistanthus libericus – Western and Central Africa
 - Cleistanthus longinervis – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus macrophyllus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Borneo, Yunnan
 - Cleistanthus maingayi – Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus major – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus malabaricus – southwestern India
 - Cleistanthus malaccensis – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus meeboldii – Myanmar
 - Cleistanthus megacarpus – Philippines, Indonesia
 - Cleistanthus membranaceus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus micranthus – Fiji
 - Cleistanthus monoicus – Guangdong
 - Cleistanthus morii – Chuuk
 - Cleistanthus namatanaiensis – Bismarck Archipelago
 - Cleistanthus ngounyensis – Gabon
 - Cleistanthus nitidus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus normanbyanus – D'Entrecasteaux Islands
 - Cleistanthus oblongatus – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus oblongifolius – Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland
 - Cleistanthus occidentalis – western Madagascar
 - Cleistanthus pallidus – Sri Lanka
 - Cleistanthus papuanus – Papua New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus papyraceus – Myanmar, Thailand
 - Cleistanthus parvifolius – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus patulus – India, Sri Lanka
 - Cleistanthus paxii – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus pedicellatus – Guangxi, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus peninsularis – Papua New Guinea, Queensland
 - Cleistanthus perrieri – eastern Madagascar
 - Cleistanthus petelotii – Guangxi, Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus pierlotii – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
 - Cleistanthus pierrei – Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus pilosus – Basilan, Mindanao
 - Cleistanthus podocarpus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus podopyxis – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus polyneurus – Peninsular Malaysia
 - Cleistanthus polyphyllus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand
 - Cleistanthus polystachyus – tropical Africa
 - Cleistanthus praetermissus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Borneo
 - Cleistanthus pseudopallidus – Sumatra
 - Cleistanthus pseudopodocarpus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
 - Cleistanthus pubens – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus pyrrhocarpus – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus ripicola – tropical Africa
 - Cleistanthus robinsonii – Palawan, Sibuyan
 - Cleistanthus robustus – Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands
 - Cleistanthus rotundatus – Cambodia
 - Cleistanthus rufescens – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
 - Cleistanthus rufus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand
 - Cleistanthus salicifolius – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus sankunnianus – southwestern India
 - Cleistanthus sarawakensis – Sarawak
 - Cleistanthus schlechteri – from Kenya to KwaZulu-Natal
 - Cleistanthus semiopacus – Queensland
 - Cleistanthus stenonia – Mayotte, Madagascar
 - Cleistanthus stenophyllus – Myanmar
 - Cleistanthus stipitatus – New Caledonia
 - Cleistanthus stipularis – western India
 - Cleistanthus striatus – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus suarezensis – Madagascar
 - Cleistanthus sumatranus – southern China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus tenerifolius – Sumatra, Kalimantan
 - Cleistanthus tomentosus – southern China, Southeast Asia
 - Cleistanthus tonkinensis – southern China, Vietnam
 - Cleistanthus travancorensis – southwestern India
 - Cleistanthus venosus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Mindanao
 - Cleistanthus vestitus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Luzon
 - Cleistanthus winkleri – Borneo
 - Cleistanthus xanthopus – Papua New Guinea
 - Cleistanthus xerophilus – Queensland
 - Cleistanthus zenkeri – tropical Africa
 
References
- ^ illustration circa 1880, from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas
 - ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
 - ^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Planchon, Jules Émile. 1848. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 8: pl. DCCLXXIX in Latin with full-page line drawing
 - ^ Tropicos, Cleistanthus Hook. f. ex Planch.
 - ^ 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.
 - ^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 172 闭花木属 bi hua mu shu Cleistanthus J. D. Hooker ex Planchon, Icon. Pl. 8: t. 779. 1848.
 - ^ Bose, A; Sandal Sejbaek, C; Suganthy, P; Raghava, V; Alex, R; Muliyil, J; et al. (2009). ""Self-harm and self-poisoning in southern India " Choice of poisoning agents and treatment". Trop Med Int Health. 14 (7): 761–5. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02293.x. PMID 19497080. S2CID 11872545.
 
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