Hura (plant)

Genus of flowering plants

Hura

Hura crepitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Rosids
Order:  | Malpighiales
Family:  | Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:  | Euphorbioideae
Tribe:  | Hureae
Genus:  | Hura

Species

* Hura crepitans L.
* Hura polyandra Baill.

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Hura is a genus of trees in the family Euphorbiaceae described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[1][2] It is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies.[3][4][5][6][7]

## Species[edit]

1. Hura crepitans L. \- from Nicaragua \+ Bahamas south to Bolivia; naturalized in parts of Africa (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Central African Republic)[3]
2. Hura polyandra Baill. \- Mexico, Central America, Ecuador[3]

### Names in homonymic genus[edit]

In 1783, Johann Gerhard König used the name Hura to refer to a very different plant from the one Linnaeus had named. Thus was created an illegitimate homonym.[8][9] Under the rules of nomenclature, Koenig's name had to be abandoned. The two names created using his genus are now in the genus Globba, as follows:

1. Hura koenigii - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)[10][9]
2. Hura siamensium - Globba pendula (Zingiberaceae)[10][9]

Detail of the spines on the bark of a Hura tree

## References[edit]

1. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1008 in Latin
2. ^ Tropicos, Hura L.
3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura L.
4. ^ 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.
5. ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
6. ^ Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
7. ^ 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
8. ^ in Retzius, Anders Jahan. 1783 Observationes Botanicae 3: 37 ("49").
9. ^ a b c "Tropicos - Name - *Hura J. Koenig". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
10. ^ a b http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=100848 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Hura J.Koenig in A.J.Retzius

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q3236809
* Wikispecies: Hura
* APDB: 191516
* BHL: 359029
* BioLib: 105874
* CoL: 8VYD7
* EoL: 107766
* EPPO: 1HURG
* FoC: 115891
* GBIF: 3071143
* GRIN: 5862
* iNaturalist: 157636
* IPNI: 15512-1
* ITIS: 28326
* NCBI: 99293
* Open Tree of Life: 870617
* PLANTS: HURA
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327727-2
* Tropicos: 40028422
* uBio: 4895002
* WFO: wfo-4000018439

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