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The Genus Croton (Euphorbiaceae)


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Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (?APG?). 1998. An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Annals Missouri Bot. Gard. 85: 531-553.

Berry, P. E. 1999. Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Pp. 111-133 in Berry, P.E., K. Yatskievych & B.K. Holst (editors). Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Volume V. Missouri Botanical Garden Press.

Berry, P. E. & J. F. Gaskin. 1998. A new Croton (Euphorbiaceae) from the western Guayana Shield and its anomalous sectional placement. Syst. Bot. 23: 171-175.

Borhidi, A. 1991. Moacroton gynopetalus. Acta Biol. Acad. Sci. Hung. 36: 7.

Borhidi, A. & O. Muñiz. 1977. Revisión del género Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae) en Cuba. Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 69: 41-53.

Burger, W. & M. Huft. 1995. Family # 113 Euphorbiaceae. Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana Botany, New Series no. 36.

Croizat, L. 1940. Thirty-five new species of American Croton. J. Arnold Arbor. 21: 78-107.

Croizat, L. 1941. Preliminaries for the study of Argentine and Uruguayan species of Croton. Darwiniana 5: 417-462.

Croizat, L. 1943. Preliminari per uno studio del genere "Julocroton" Mart. Revista Argent. Agron. 10: 117-145.

Croizat, L. 1944. Additions to the genus Croton in South America. Darwiniana 6: 442-468.

Croizat, L. 1945. New or critical Euphorbiaceae from the Americas. J. Arnold Arbor. 26: 181-196.

Domínguez, C. A. & S. H. Bullock. 1989. La reproducción de Croton suberosus en luz y sombra. Revista Biol. Trop. 37: 1-10.

Esser, H.-J. & P. C. van Welzen. 2001. Colobocarpos, a new genus of South-East Asian Euphorbiaceae. Kew Bull. 56: 657-659.

Evans, T. M., R. B. Faden, & K. J. Sytsma. 2000. Homoplasy in the Commelinaceae: a comparison of different classes of morphological characters. In: Wilson, K. L. & D A. Morrison (eds). Monocots: Systematics and Evolution, pp. 557-566. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Farnsworth, N. R., R. N. Blomster, W. M. Messmer, J. C. King, G. J. Persinos & J. D. Wilkes. 1969. A phytochemical and biological review of the genus Croton. Lloydia 32: 1-28.

Gómez-Pompa, A. 1971. Papel posible de la vegetación secundaria en la evolución de la flora tropical. Biotropica 3: 125-135.

Govaerts, R., D. G. Frodin, & A. Radcliffe-Smith. 2000. World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae. 4 vols. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England.

Jeffrey, C. 1992. The tribe Senecioneae in the Mascarene Islands with an annotated world check-list of the genera in the tribe. Kew Bull. 47: 49-109.

Jose, T. & J. A. Inamdar. 1989. Structure, ontogeny, and biology of nectaries in Croton bonplandianus Baill. Beitr. Biol. Plfanzen 64: 157-165.

Leandri, J. 1939. Les Croton de Madagascar et dels iles voisines. 100 pp, 11 figs. Ann. Inst. Bot.-Géol. Colon. Marseille, V, 7(1). Marseille.

Liogier, A. H. 1986. Flora de la Española. IV. Euphorbiaceae. pp. 57-222. Univ. Central del Este, Santo Domingo.

Miller, J. T. & R. T. Bayer. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics of Acacia (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) based on the chloroplast matK coding sequence and flanking trnK intron spacer regions. Amer. J. Bot. 88: 697-705.

Mueller, J. 1866. Euphorbiaceae. In A. de Candolle (ed.), Prodromus sytematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 15: 189-1261.

Mueller, J. 1873. Croton. Pp. 81-274 in C. F. P. von Martius, Flora Brasiliensis, 11(2).

Murillo, J. 1999. Composición y distribución del género Croton (Euphorbiaceae) en Colombia, con cuatro especies nuevas. Caldasia 21: 141-166.

Nepokroeff, M., B. Bremer & K. J. Sytsma. 1999. Reorganization of the genus Psychotria and tribe Psychotrieae (Rubiaceae) inferred from ITS and rbcL sequence data. Syst. Bot. 24: 5-27.

Nordenstam, B. 1978. Taxonomic studies in the tribe Senecioneae (Compositae). Opera Bot. 44: 1-84.

Nowicke, J. W. 1994. A palynological study of Crotonoideae (Euphorbiaceae). Annals Missouri Bot. Gard. 81: 245-269.

Punt, W. 1961. Pollen morphology of the Euphorbiaceae with special reference to taxonomy. Wentia 7: 1-116.

Radcliffe-Smith, A. 1988. Croton. Pp. 135-160 in R.M. Polhill (ed.). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Euphorbiaceae. Part 1. London.

Radcliffe-Smith, A. 2001. Genera Euphorbiacearum. 455 pp. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Sanderson, M. J. & M. J. Donoghue. 1996. Reconstructing shifts in diversification rates on phylogenetic trees. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11: 15-20.

Sanderson, M. J. & M. F. Wojciechowski. 1996. Diversification rates in a temperate legume clade: are there ?so many species? of Astragalus (Fabaceae)? American Journal of Botany 83: 1488-1502.

Savolainen, V., M. F. Fay, D. C. Albach, A. Backlund, M. van der Bank, K. M. Cameron, S. A. Johnson, M. D. Ledó, J-C. Pintaud, M. Powell, M. C. Sheahan, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, P. Weston, W. M. Whitten, K. J. Wurdack, & M. W. Chase. 2000. Phylogeny of the eudicots: a nearly complete familial analysis based on rbcL gene sequences. Kew Bull. 55: 257-309.

Smith, L. B., R. J. Downs & R. M. Klein. 1988. Croton; Julocroton. In R. Reitz (ed.), Flora ilustrada catariense, I: Euforbiáceas: 62-137, 138-151, illus., maps. Itajaí.

Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, M. W. Chase, M. E. Mort, D. C. Albach, M. Zania, V. Savolainen, W. H. Hahn, S. B. Hoot, M. F. Fay, M. Axtell, S. M. Swensen, L. M. Prince, W. J. Kress, K. C. Nixon, & J. S. Farris. 2000. Angiosperm phylogeny inferred from 18S rDNA, rbcL, and atpB sequendes. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 2000: 381-461.

Spooner, D. M., G. J. Anderson, and R. K. Jansen. 1993. Chloroplast DNA evidence for interrelationships of tomatoes, potatoes, and pepinos (Solanaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 80: 676-688.

Webster, G. L. 1975. Conspectus of a new classification of the Euphorbiaceae. Taxon 24: 593-601.

Webster, G. L. 1988. Croton. In G.L. Webster & M. Huft (eds.), Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 1087-1144.

Webster, G. L. 1992. Realignments in American Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Novon 2: 269-273.

Webster, G. L. 1993. A provisional synopsis of the sections of the genus Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Taxon 42: 793-823.

Webster, G. L. 1994. Synopsis of the genera and suprageneric taxa of Euphorbiaceae. Annals Missouri Bot. Gard. 81: 33-144.

Webster, G. L., M. J. Del-Arco-Aguilar, & B. A. Smith. 1996. Systematic distribution of foliar trichome types in Croton (Euphorbiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society 121: 41-57.

Wurdack, K. J. and M. W. Chase. 1999. Spurges split: Molecular systematics and changing concepts of Euphorbiaceae, s.l. International Botanical Congress, St. Louis. [Congress abstract]


 


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