Glochidion
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Glochidion is a genus of flowering plants in the family Phyllanthaceae, known as cheese trees or buttonwood in Australia, and leafflower trees in the scientific literature. It comprises about 170 species, distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands. Glochidion species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus eximia and Endoclita damor.[1] The Nicobarese people have attested to the medicinal properties found in G. calocarpum, saying that its bark and seed are most effective in curing abdominal disorders associated with amoebiasis.Template:R
Glochidion are of note in the fields of pollination biology and coevolution because they have a specialized mutualism with moths in the genus Epicephala (leafflower moths), in which the moths actively pollinate the flowers—thereby ensuring that the tree may produce viable seeds—but also lay eggs in the flowers' ovaries, where their larvae consume a subset of the developing seeds as nourishment.Template:R Other species of Epicephala are pollinators, and in some cases, non-pollinating seed predators, of certain species of plants in the genera PhyllanthusTemplate:R and Breynia,Template:R both closely related to Glochidion.Template:R This relationship is similar to those between figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths.
Although the genus Glochidion is native only to the Old World, the East Asian species Glochidion puberum has become naturalized at several locations in the U.S. state of Alabama.Template:R
In a 2006 revision of the Phyllanthaceae, it was recommended that Glochidion be subsumed in Phyllanthus.Template:R New combinations in Phyllanthus have been published for MadagascarTemplate:R and the Pacific Islands,Template:R but most remain to be published.
Selected species
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". since February 2025[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., Plants of the World Online accepts 169 species.Template:R Selected species include:
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- Glochidion apodogynum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion barronense Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion benthamianum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion bourdillonii Template:Au
- Glochidion calocarpum Template:Au
- Glochidion candolleanum Template:Au (synonyms Glochidion pauciflorum GambleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Glochidion sisparense GambleScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Glochidion carrickii Template:Au
- Glochidion christophersenii Template:Au
- Glochidion comitum Template:Au
- Glochidion disparipes Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion eriocarpum Template:Au
- Glochidion ferdinandi Template:Au - cheese tree, buttonwood, pencil cedar, water gum, rain tree[2]
- Glochidion grantii Template:Au
- Glochidion harveyanum Template:Au - buttonwood, daphne buttonwood[2]
- Glochidion hohenackeri (Müll.Arg.) Bedd.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion hohenackeri var. hohenackeri
- Glochidion hohenackeri var. johnstonei (Hook.f.) Chakrab. & M.Gangop.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (synonym Glochidion johnstonei Hook.f.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Glochidion hylandii Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion insulare Template:Au
- Glochidion lanceolarium Template:Au
- Glochidion lobocarpum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion longfieldiae Template:Au
- Glochidion manono Template:Au
- Glochidion marchionicum Template:Au (synonym Glochidion tooviianum J.FlorenceScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Glochidion marianum Müll.Arg.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion moonii Template:Au
- Glochidion moorei Template:Au
- Glochidion myrtifolium Template:Au
- Glochidion nadeaudii Template:Au
- Glochidion nemorale Template:Au (synonym Glochidion gardneri ThwaitesScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Glochidion papenooense Template:Au
- Glochidion perakense Template:Au - umbrella cheese tree, buttonwood[2]
- Glochidion philippicum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion pitcairnense Template:Au
- Glochidion pruinosum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion puberum Template:Au
- Glochidion pungens Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion raivavense Template:Au
- Glochidion ramiflorum J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
- Glochidion rapaense Template:Au
- Glochidion seemannii Müll.-Arg.
- Glochidion sessiliflorum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion stellatum (Retz.) Bedd.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion stylosum Ridl.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion symingtonii Airy ShawScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion taitense Baill. ex Müll-Arg.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion temehaniense J.W.MooreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion xerocarpum Template:Au[2]
- Glochidion zeylanicum (Gaertn.) A.Juss.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion zeylanicum var. arborescens (Blume) Chakrab. & M.Gangop.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion zeylanicum var. arunachalense Chakrab. & M.Gangop.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion zeylanicum var. paucicarpum Chakrab. & N.P.Balakr.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Glochidion zeylanicum var. tomentosum (Dalzell) TrimenScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (synonym Glochidion tomentosum DalzellScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- Glochidion zeylanicum var. zeylanicum (synonym Glochidion sumatranum Template:Au)
References
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- ↑ PLANTS Profile . USDA.gov. Accessed June 2, 2012.
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