Eleutheranthera Poit.

First published in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 3: 137 (1802)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., East Himalaya, Fiji, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Madeira, Malaya, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Northern Territory, Queensland, Samoa, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Western Australia, Zaïre

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0