Dalechampia

Dalechampia
Dalechampia scandens, Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily: Acalyphoideae
Tribe: Plukenetieae
Subtribe: Dalechampiinae
Genus: Dalechampia
L. 1753
Synonyms[1]

Dalechampia is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monogeneric subtribe Dalechampiinae. It is widespread across lowland tropical areas (generally below 2,000 m ASL) primarily in the Americas with smaller numbers of species in Africa, Madagascar, and southern Asia.[1][2] Additional new species are still being described and several are very rare and at risk of extinction.[3][4][5][6]

Dalechampia has unisexual flowers that are secondarily united into bisexual blossoms (pseudanthia), which act as the pollination units. The pollination and floral evolution of this genus have been studied more intensively than perhaps any other member of the euphorbia family. In the neotropics (Americas), most species are pollinated by resin-collecting female bees, including euglossine bees and Hypanthidium of the Megachilidae, which use resin in nest construction. About a dozen neotropical species (including D. spathulata, shown below) are pollinated by fragrance-collecting male euglossine bees, which use these fragrances to attract females for mating. There are at least three independent pollination shifts from pollination by female resin-collecting bees to pollination by male fragrance-collecting bees. African and Asian species are also pollinated by resin-collecting megachilid bees, but Malagasy species are pollinated by pollen-feeding beetles and pollen-collecting bees.

Two species are of horticultural interest, D. spathulata and D. aristolochiifolia, have particularly showy blossoms with bright pink/purple bracts. Dalechampia aristolochiifolia, from Peru, has become very popular recently, but it is mistakenly advertised and distributed under the name D. dioscoreifolia.

Dalechampia aristolochiifolia
Dalechampia caperonioides
Dalechampia dioscoreifoila
Dalechampia linearis
Dalechampia peckoltiana
Dalechampia schippii
Dalechampia spathulata
Dalechampia tiliifolia
Species[1]
  1. Dalechampia adscendens – Bolivia, Mato Grosso do Sul
  2. Dalechampia affinis – N South America
  3. Dalechampia alataBahia, Rio de Janeiro
  4. Dalechampia albibracteosaEl Beni
  5. Dalechampia allemiiBahia
  6. Dalechampia anomala – Paraguay, Paraná
  7. Dalechampia arcianaBahia
  8. Dalechampia arenalensis – Costa Rica
  9. Dalechampia aristolochiifolia – Peru
  10. Dalechampia armbrusteriBahia, Espírito Santo
  11. Dalechampia attenuistylus – Venezuela, Suriname, Fr Guiana
  12. Dalechampia bangii – Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul
  13. Dalechampia bernieri – Madagascar
  14. Dalechampia bidentataYunnan, SE Asia
  15. Dalechampia boliviana – Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul
  16. Dalechampia brasiliensis – E Brazil
  17. Dalechampia brevicolumna – Suriname, Fr Guiana
  18. Dalechampia brevipedunculataAmazonas in Brazil
  19. Dalechampia brevipesMato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo
  20. Dalechampia brownsbergensis – NE South America
  21. Dalechampia burchelliiGoiás
  22. Dalechampia burgeriana – Costa Rica
  23. Dalechampia burmanica – Myanmar
  24. Dalechampia canescens – SE Central America, NW South America
  25. Dalechampia capensis – E + S Africa
  26. Dalechampia caperonioidesGoiás, Brasília, Minas Gerais
  27. Dalechampia catati – Madagascar
  28. Dalechampia chevalieri – Cameroon, Central African Rep
  29. Dalechampia chlorocephala – Madagascar
  30. Dalechampia cissifolia – Mexico, Central America, NW + W South America
  31. Dalechampia clausseniana – Brazil
  32. Dalechampia clematidifolia – Madagascar
  33. Dalechampia convolvuloides – E Brazil
  34. Dalechampia coriaceaBahia
  35. Dalechampia cujabensisMato Grosso
  36. Dalechampia decaryi – Madagascar
  37. Dalechampia denticulata – Cuba
  38. Dalechampia dioscoreifolia from Nicaragua to Bolivia
  39. Dalechampia elongata – N Thailand
  40. Dalechampia falcata – Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  41. Dalechampia fernandesiiCeará
  42. Dalechampia ficifolia – E Brazil
  43. Dalechampia fragrans – Suriname, French Guiana
  44. Dalechampia francisceanaMinas Gerais
  45. Dalechampia galpinii – southern Africa
  46. Dalechampia gentryi – Peru, NW Brazil
  47. Dalechampia glechomifolia – S Brazil, Misiones
  48. Dalechampia granadillaRio de Janeiro
  49. Dalechampia guaranitica – Paraguay
  50. Dalechampia hassleriana – Paraguay, Paraná
  51. Dalechampia hastataAmazonas in Brazil
  52. Dalechampia herzogiana – Bolivia, Mato Grosso do Sul
  53. Dalechampia heterobractea – N Brazil, Venezuela, 3 Guianas
  54. Dalechampia hispida – Peru, Ecuador
  55. Dalechampia humilis – Brazil
  56. Dalechampia hutchisoniana – Peru
  57. Dalechampia ilheoticaPernambuco, Bahia
  58. Dalechampia indica – S India, Sri Lanka
  59. Dalechampia ipomoeifolia – tropical Africa
  60. Dalechampia juruana – NW South America
  61. Dalechampia karsteniana – N Colombia
  62. Dalechampia katangensisKatanga
  63. Dalechampia laevigata – S Mexico, Belize, Honduras
  64. Dalechampia leandriiRio de Janeiro
  65. Dalechampia leucophyllaGoiás
  66. Dalechampia liesneri – S Venezuela, NW Brazil
  67. Dalechampia linearis – Brazil, Paraguay
  68. Dalechampia luetzelburgiiCeará, Pernambuco, Bahia
  69. Dalechampia magnistipulataVeracruz, Oaxaca
  70. Dalechampia magnoliifolia – N + WC South America
  71. Dalechampia martianaSão Paulo
  72. Dalechampia megacarpa – S Venezuela, NW Brazil
  73. Dalechampia meridionalis – Uruguay, S Brazil
  74. Dalechampia micrantha – N + NW South America
  75. Dalechampia micromeria – S Brazil, Paraguay
  76. Dalechampia occidentalisMato Grosso
  77. Dalechampia olfersianaMinas Gerais
  78. Dalechampia olympianaAmazonas in Brazil
  79. Dalechampia osanaOsa Peninsula
  80. Dalechampia papillistigmaBolívar
  81. Dalechampia parvibracteata – NE South America
  82. Dalechampia pavoniifolia – Somalia
  83. Dalechampia peckoltianaRio de Janeiro
  84. Dalechampia pentaphylla – Brazil
  85. Dalechampia pernambucensisCeará, Pernambuco
  86. Dalechampia perrieri – Madagascar
  87. Dalechampia psilogyneGoiás
  88. Dalechampia purpurataBahia
  89. Dalechampia regnelliiMinas Gerais
  90. Dalechampia reitzkleiniiSanta Catarina
  91. Dalechampia riedelianaMato Grosso
  92. Dalechampia ripariaSanta Catarina
  93. Dalechampia rubrivenia- Paraguay
  94. Dalechampia scandens – Latin America, West Indies
  95. Dalechampia schenckianaPernambuco
  96. Dalechampia schippii – Belize
  97. Dalechampia schottiiYucatán
  98. Dalechampia serrulaCanindeyú
  99. Dalechampia shankii – Central America, Colombia, Ecuador
  100. Dalechampia sinuata – Madagascar
  101. Dalechampia spathulata – Central America, S Mexico
  102. Dalechampia stenolobaKarnataka
  103. Dalechampia stenosepala – S Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina
  104. Dalechampia stipulacea – South America
  105. Dalechampia subintegraBahia
  106. Dalechampia subternata – Madagascar
  107. Dalechampia sylvestris – Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
  108. Dalechampia tamifolia – Mauritius, Comoros, Madagascar, SW India
  109. Dalechampia tenuiramea – Brazil, S Venezuela, Bolivia
  110. Dalechampia tiliifolia – Central America, S Mexico, N + W South America, Trinidad
  111. Dalechampia trifoliata – E Africa
  112. Dalechampia triphyllaSão Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
  113. Dalechampia uleana – Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
  114. Dalechampia ulmifolia – E. Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul, Misiones
  115. Dalechampia variifoliaMinas Gerais
  116. Dalechampia velutinaTamil Nadu
  117. Dalechampia violaceaRio Grande do Sul
  118. Dalechampia viridissimaBahia, Espírito Santo
  119. Dalechampia weberbaueri – Peru
  120. Dalechampia websteri – Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
  121. Dalechampia weddellianaGoiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraguay

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