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Necepsia

Necepsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910. It is native to Madagascar and to tropical Africa.SpeciesNecepsia afzelii Prain - Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Cabinda, Gabon Necepsia castaneifolia (Baill.) Bouchat & J.Léonard - Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Madagascar Necepsia zairensis Bouchat & J.Léonard - Congo, Zaire

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Necepsia
Necepsia castaneifolia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Bernardieae
Genus: Necepsia
Prain
Type species
Necepsia afzelii
Synonyms1

Necepsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910.23 It is native to Madagascar and to tropical Africa.14

Species1
  1. Necepsia afzelii Prain - Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Congo, Cabinda, Gabon
  2. Necepsia castaneifolia (Baill.) Bouchat & J.Léonard - Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Madagascar
  3. Necepsia zairensis Bouchat & J.Léonard - Congo, Zaire
References

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Prain, David. 1910. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1910: 343 in Latin
  3. Tropicos, genus Necepsia
  4. 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.