Ricinocarpos
Encyclopedia
Ricinocarpos is a plant
genus
of the family
Euphorbiaceae
. One species is native to New Caledonia
, the others endemic to Australia
.
Species include:
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbiaceae
Euphorbiaceae, the Spurge family are a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti....
. One species is native to New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
, the others endemic to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
Species include:
- Ricinocarpos bowmanii F.Muell.
- Ricinocarpos brevis R.J.F.Hend. & Mollemans
- Ricinocarpos cyanescens Muell.Arg.
- Ricinocarpos glaucus Endl.
- Ricinocarpos ledifolius F.Muell.
- Ricinocarpos marginatus (A.Cunn.) Benth.
- Ricinocarpos muricatus Muell.Arg.
- Ricinocarpos pinifoliusRicinocarpos pinifoliusRicinocarpos pinifolius is a plant of the family Euphorbiaceae native to Eastern Australia. It was first described by French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines. Its showy fragrant white flowers are a familiar sight to bushwalkers in the spring, and are used locally in flower arranging....
Desf. - Wedding Bush - Ricinocarpos psilocladus (Muell.Arg.) Benth.
- Ricinocarpos rosmarinifolius (A.Cunn.) Benth.
- Ricinocarpos speciosus Muell.Arg.
- Ricinocarpos stylosus Diels
- Ricinocarpos trichophorus Muell.Arg.
- Ricinocarpos tuberculatus Muell.Arg.
- Ricinocarpos undulates Lehm.
- Ricinocarpos velutinus F.Muell.