Bonania

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Bonania

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|synonyms = Hypocoton Urb.

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Bonania is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1850.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9306487#page/198/mode/1up Richard, Achille. 1850. in Sagra, Ramón de la, Historia Física Política y Natural de la Isla de Cuba, Botánica 11: 201] in Latin with notes in Spanish[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40029211 Tropicos, Bonania R. Richard in Sagra ] It is native to the West Indies.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=22912 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.

;species

1. Bonania cubana A.Rich. - Bahamas, Cuba
2. Bonania domingensis (Urb.) Urb. - Haiti, Dominican Rep
3. Bonania elliptica Urb. - Cuba
4. Bonania emarginata C.Wright ex Griseb. - Cuba
5. Bonania erythrosperma (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. - Cuba
6. Bonania linearifolia Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
7. †Bonania myricifolia (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f. - Guantánamo but extinct

;formerly included

moved to Sapium

• B. adenodon - Sapium adenodon