Acidoton

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

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|image_caption = Male flower of Acidoton urens

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|taxon = Acidoton

|authority = Sw. 1788, conserved name, not P. Browne 1756

|type_species = Acidoton urens

|type_species_authority = Sw.

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|synonyms = *Durandeeldia Kuntze

• Gitara Pax & K.Hoffm.

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Acidoton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1788.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/376726#page/15/mode/1up Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 83] in Latin[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40030787 Tropicos, genus Acidoton Sw.] It is native to the Greater Antilles, Central America, and tropical South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=1926 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]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.Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archivedate=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroStevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Fl. Antioquia: Cat. 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394.Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.Fuentes, A.F., Miranda, T., Araujo-Murakami, A., Cayola, L. Macia, M.J. & Jørgensen, P.M. (2009). Novedades florísticas de la región Madidi, La Paz, Bolivia. Revista de la Sociedad Boliviana de Botánica 4: 293-313.

;Species

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1. Acidoton haitiensis Alain - Haiti
2. Acidoton lanceolatus Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
3. Acidoton microphyllus Urb. - Hispaniola
4. Acidoton nicaraguensis (Hemsl.) G.L.Webster - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
5. Acidoton urens Sw. - Jamaica
6. Acidoton variifolius Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola }}

;Formerly included

moved to other genera (Flueggea Jablonskia Margaritaria Meineckia Securinega )

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1. A. acidothamnus - Flueggea acidoton
2. A. baillonianus - Margaritaria discoidea var. triplosphaera
3. A. buxifolius - Flueggea tinctoria
4. A. congestus - Jablonskia congesta
5. A. durissimus - Securinega durissima
6. A. ellipticus - Flueggea elliptica
7. A. flexuosus - Flueggea flexuosa
8. A. flueggeoides - Flueggea suffruticosa
9. A. griseus - Flueggea virosa
10. A. hilarianus - Meineckia neogranatensis subsp. hilariana
11. A. leucopyrus - Flueggea leucopyrus
12. A. obovatus - Flueggea virosa
13. A. phyllanthoides - Flueggea virosa
14. A. ramiflorus - Flueggea suffruticosa
15. A. schuechianus - Flueggea schuechiana
16. A. trichogynus - Meineckia trichogynis
17. A. virosus - Flueggea virosa }}