Hura (plant)


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
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

Species
  1. Hura crepitans L. - from Nicaragua + Bahamas south to Bolivia; naturalized in parts of Africa (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Central African Republic)[3]
  2. Hura polyandra Baill. - Mexico, Central America, Ecuador[3]

Names in homonymic genus

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:

  1. Hura koenigii - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)[10][9]
  2. Hura siamensium - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)[10][9]
Detail of the spines on the bark of a Hura tree

References
  1. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1008 in Latin
  2. Tropicos, Hura L.
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura L.
  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.
  5. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  6. Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
  7. González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394
  8. in Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1783 Observationes Botanicae 3: 37 ("49").
  9. "Tropicos - Name - *Hura J. Koenig". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  10. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=100848 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius


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