Taxonomic inventory of Euphorbiaceae from Quindío state (Colombia)

Inventario taxonómico de la familia Euphorbiaceae en el Quindío (Colombia)

C.A. Maya-Lastra & C.A. Agudelo - 2007

This work has as principal objective know the taxonomic status for all species of Euphorbiaceae that occurs in Quindío state. We revised and determine 423 exsicatae from Herbarium University of Quindío (HUQ). With all this information we build identification keys, diagnostic notes, morphological descriptions and georeferencing principals specimens in distribution maps, additionally was designed an interactive key software called SinóptiK, which permits determinate all Euphorbiaceae registered species in Quindío with a personal computer. As a part of results we found 16 genus: Euphorbia and Acalypha the major genus with 9 and 7 species respectively, followed by Croton (5 spp), Dalechampia (3 spp), Alchornea (2 spp), Mabea (2 spp), Jatropha (2 spp) and Chamaesyce (2 spp), and 8 monospecific genus, Ricinus, Dysopsis, Tetrorchidium, Manihot, Codiaeum, Caperonia, Plukenetia and Sapium. In total were 40 species, with 14 were new reports to Quindío, for example: Dalechampia canescens, D. cissifolia, Plukenetia volubilis and Croton xalapensis, the last was a new report to Colombia. We confirmed Acalypha platyphylla and A. setosa reports. We identified A. diversifolia, A. macrostachya and Euphorbia heterophylla as the species with the widest distribution, occuring in 12 localities of Quindío; in contrast, Dalechampia canescens, Dysopsis paucidentata and Euphorbia peplus only are found in one or two localities.

This works was the main part of my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of C. A. Agudelo, and the follow products were obtained from this.

Maya-Lastra, C.A., 2007. Inventario taxonómico de la familia Euphorbiaceae en el departamento del Quindío. Tesis de pregrado. Universidad del Quindío. pp 281.

Maya Lastra, C. A. 2007. SinóptiK, aplicación interactiva para la determinación de especimenes de la familia Euphorbiaceae para el departamento del Quindío. Colombia. - More information and download it here

Maya-Lastra, C.A. & Agudelo, C.A., 2009. Estudio taxonómico de la familia Euphorbiaceae en el Quindío - Taxonomic study of Euphorbiaceae from Quindío (Colombia) - Extended abstract . Rev. Asoc. Col. Cienc. Biol. (Col.), 21:156-173. - More information and download it here

Maya-Lastra, C.A. & Agudelo, C.A., 2010. Lista anotada de las especies de Euphorbiaceae para el Quindío - Annotated list of Euphorbiaceae species for Quindío. Rev. Invest. Univ. Quindío, 20:126-136. - More information and download it here

Maya-Lastra, C.A & Agudelo, C.A., 2011. Euphorbiaceae del Quindío. Editorial Universidad del Quindío, 1ra edición. ISBN 978-958-8593-17-3. - More information here