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Genus of flowering plants
Cleistanthus collinus in
Narsapur, Medak district ,
India .
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 curtisii – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus dallachyanus – Queensland,
Northern Territory
Cleistanthus decurrens – Thailand, Philippines, Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus denudatus – Thailand
Cleistanthus discolor – Queensland
†
Cleistanthus diversifolius – ?
Cleistanthus dolichophyllus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus duvipermaniorum –
Democratic Republic of the Congo , Angola
Cleistanthus eberhardtii – Vietnam
Cleistanthus ellipticus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus elongatus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus erycibifolius – Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo,
Negros
Cleistanthus everettii – Borneo, Philippines
Cleistanthus evrardii – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
Cleistanthus ferrugineus – Sri Lanka
Cleistanthus flavescens – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus floricola –
Flores
Cleistanthus gabonensis – Gabon
Cleistanthus glaber – Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia,
Mindanao
Cleistanthus glabratus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus glandulosus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand,
Sumatra
Cleistanthus gracilis – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo
Cleistanthus helferi – Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand,
Myanmar
Cleistanthus hirsutopetalus – Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand,
Singapore
Cleistanthus hirsutulus – Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo, Vietnam
Cleistanthus hylandii – Queensland
Cleistanthus indochinensis – Vietnam
Cleistanthus inglorius –
Papua New Guinea
Cleistanthus insignis –
Morobe
Cleistanthus insularis – Palau
Cleistanthus inundatus – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Angola
Cleistanthus isabellinus – Sabah, Philippines, New Guinea
Cleistanthus itsoghensis – Central Africa
Cleistanthus jacobsianus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus kingii – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus kwangensis – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola
Cleistanthus langkawiensis –
Langkawi
Cleistanthus lanuginosus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus letouzeyi – Cameroon, Gabon,
Equatorial Guinea
Cleistanthus libericus – Western and Central Africa
Cleistanthus longinervis – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus macrophyllus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Borneo,
Yunnan
Cleistanthus maingayi – Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak
Cleistanthus major – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus malabaricus – southwestern India
Cleistanthus malaccensis – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus meeboldii – Myanmar
Cleistanthus megacarpus – Philippines, Indonesia
Cleistanthus membranaceus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus micranthus – Fiji
Cleistanthus monoicus –
Guangdong
Cleistanthus morii –
Chuuk
Cleistanthus namatanaiensis –
Bismarck Archipelago
Cleistanthus ngounyensis – Gabon
Cleistanthus nitidus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus normanbyanus –
D'Entrecasteaux Islands
Cleistanthus oblongatus – Sarawak
Cleistanthus oblongifolius –
Bangladesh , Southeast Asia,
Papuasia , Queensland
Cleistanthus occidentalis – western Madagascar
Cleistanthus pallidus – Sri Lanka
Cleistanthus papuanus – Papua New Guinea
Cleistanthus papyraceus – Myanmar, Thailand
Cleistanthus parvifolius – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus patulus – India, Sri Lanka
Cleistanthus paxii – Sarawak
Cleistanthus pedicellatus –
Guangxi , Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea
Cleistanthus peninsularis – Papua New Guinea, Queensland
Cleistanthus perrieri – eastern Madagascar
Cleistanthus petelotii – Guangxi, Vietnam
Cleistanthus pierlotii – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
Cleistanthus pierrei – Vietnam
Cleistanthus pilosus –
Basilan ,
Mindanao
Cleistanthus podocarpus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus podopyxis – Borneo
Cleistanthus polyneurus – Peninsular Malaysia
Cleistanthus polyphyllus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand
Cleistanthus polystachyus – tropical Africa
Cleistanthus praetermissus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Borneo
Cleistanthus pseudopallidus – Sumatra
Cleistanthus pseudopodocarpus – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
Cleistanthus pubens – Borneo
Cleistanthus pyrrhocarpus – Borneo
Cleistanthus ripicola – tropical Africa
Cleistanthus robinsonii –
Palawan ,
Sibuyan
Cleistanthus robustus – Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands
Cleistanthus rotundatus – Cambodia
Cleistanthus rufescens – Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
Cleistanthus rufus – Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand
Cleistanthus salicifolius – Sarawak
Cleistanthus sankunnianus – southwestern India
Cleistanthus sarawakensis – Sarawak
Cleistanthus schlechteri – from Kenya to
KwaZulu-Natal
Cleistanthus semiopacus – Queensland
Cleistanthus stenonia –
Mayotte , Madagascar
Cleistanthus stenophyllus – Myanmar
Cleistanthus stipitatus –
New Caledonia
Cleistanthus stipularis – western India
Cleistanthus striatus – Borneo
Cleistanthus suarezensis – Madagascar
Cleistanthus sumatranus – southern China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
Cleistanthus tenerifolius – Sumatra,
Kalimantan
Cleistanthus tomentosus – southern China, Southeast Asia
Cleistanthus tonkinensis – southern China, Vietnam
Cleistanthus travancorensis – southwestern India
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
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a
b
c
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Planchon, Jules Émile. 1848. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 8: pl. DCCLXXIX in Latin with full-page line drawing
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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 .