Erythrochiton

Erythrochiton
Erythrochiton brasiliensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Subfamily:	Rutoideae
Genus:	Erythrochiton Nees & Mart.[1]

Erythrochiton is a genus of plant in family Rutaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):

• Erythrochiton brasiliensis Nees & Mart.^[2]
• Erythrochiton delitescens Morton^[3]
• Erythrochiton fallax Kallunki^[4]
• Erythrochiton giganteus Kaastra & A.H.Gentry
• Erythrochiton gymnanthus Kallunki^[5]
• Erythrochiton hypophyllanthus Planch. & Linden^[6]
• Erythrochiton lindenii Planch. & Linden^[7]
• Erythrochiton macrophyllum Makoy ex Hook.^[8]
• Erythrochiton macropodum K.Krause^[9]
• Erythrochiton odontoglossus Kallunki^[10]
• Erythrochiton trichanthus Kallunki^[11]
• Erythrochiton trifoliatum Pilg.^[12]

Many species of this genus are characterised by having epiphyllous flowers, which emerge from the leaf itself, rather than the more usual site of a leaf axil, a plant axis, or its inflorescence.^[13]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1336872 entry

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