Neoscortechinia

Neoscortechinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897.[2][3] It is native to Southeast Asia and Papuasia.[1][4]

Species[1]

1. Neoscortechinia angustifolia (Airy Shaw) Welzen - Sabah, Kalimantan
2. Neoscortechinia forbesii (Hook.f.) S.Moore - New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
3. Neoscortechinia kingii (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
4. Neoscortechinia nicobarica (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, W New Guinea
5. Neoscortechinia philippinensis (Merr.) Welzen - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines
6. Neoscortechinia sumatrensis S.Moore - W Malaysia, N. Sumatra, Simeuluë, Borneo

Neoscortechinia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Acalyphoideae
Tribe:	Cheiloseae
Genus:	Neoscortechinia Hook.f. ex Pax
Type species
Alcinaeanthus philippinensis Merr.
Synonyms[1]
Alcinaeanthus Merr. Scortechinia Hook.f. 1887, illegitimate homonym, not Sacc. 1885 (a fungus)

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Pax, Ferdinand Albin. 1897. in Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf & Prantl, Karl Anton Eugen, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Nachter. 1: 213
3. Tropicos
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.