''Acridocarpus'' (from
Gr. ''Akris'', a locust and ''carpos'', a fruit, alluding to the winged fruit) is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
in family
Malpighiaceae. They are native to
Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plat ...
and tropical and subtropical
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
, with one species in
New Caledonia.
Species
There are some 30 species, which include:
* ''
Acridocarpus austrocaledonicus''
* ''
Acridocarpus chevalieri''
* ''
Acridocarpus monodii''
Arènes & P.Jaeger ex Birnbaum & J.Florence
* ''Acridocarpus orientalis'' (
Jebel Hafeet
Jabal Hafeet ( ar, جَبَل حَفِيْت, Jabal Ḥafīt, "Mount Hafeet"; variously transcribed Jabal, Jabel or Jebal and Hafit or Hafeet – literally "empty mountain") is a mountain in the region of Tawam, on the border of the United Arab ...
,
UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
/
Oman
Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...
)
* ''
Acridocarpus natalitius''
Adr. & Juss.
* ''
Acridocarpus socotranus''
Oliv.
References
External links
*
Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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