Cleistanthus is a plant genus of the family Phyllanthaceae, tribe Bridelieae, first described as a genus in 1848.[3][4] It is widespread in much of the Old World Tropics in Asia, Africa, Australia, and various oceanic islands.[2][5][6]Cleistanthus collinus is known for being toxic and may be the agent of homicides or suicides.[7]
Species[2]
Cleistanthus acuminatus – Sri Lanka
Cleistanthus andamanicus – Andaman Islands
Cleistanthus angustifolius – Luzon
Cleistanthus annamensis – Vietnam
Cleistanthus apodus – Queensland, eastern New Guinea
Cleistanthus bakonensis – Borneo
Cleistanthus balakrishnanii – Nicobar Islands
Cleistanthus bambidianus – Gabon
Cleistanthus baramicus – Borneo
Cleistanthus beccarianus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus bipindensis – Central Africa
Cleistanthus boivinianus – Madagascar
Cleistanthus bracteosus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus bracteosus – Indonesia, Philippines
Cleistanthus capuronii – eastern Madagascar
Cleistanthus carolinianus – Palau
Cleistanthus caudatus – Central Africa
Cleistanthus celebicus – Sabah, Sulawesi
Cleistanthus chlorocarpus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus collinus – Indian Subcontinent
Cleistanthus concinnus – Hainan, Vietnam
Cleistanthus contractus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah
Cleistanthus coriaceus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus cunninghamii – Queensland, New South Wales
Cleistanthus venosus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Mindanao
Cleistanthus vestitus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Luzon
Cleistanthus winkleri – Borneo
Cleistanthus xanthopus – Papua New Guinea
Cleistanthus xerophilus – Queensland
Cleistanthus zenkeri – tropical Africa
^illustration circa 1880, from Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.) - Flora de Filipinas
^ abcKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Planchon, Jules Émile. 1848. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 8: pl. DCCLXXIX in Latin with full-page line drawing
^Tropicos, Cleistanthus Hook. f. ex Planch.
^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.
^Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 172 闭花木属 bi hua mu shu Cleistanthus J. D. Hooker ex Planchon, Icon. Pl. 8: t. 779. 1848.
^Bose, A; Sandal Sejbaek, C; Suganthy, P; Raghava, V; Alex, R; Muliyil, J; et al. (2009). ""Self-harm and self-poisoning in southern India " Choice of poisoning agents and treatment". Trop Med Int Health. 14 (7): 761–5. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02293.x. PMID 19497080. S2CID 11872545.
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