Croton macrostachyus Hochst. ex Delile, Voy. Abyssinie 3: 158. 1848

Berry, Paul E., Kainulainen, Kent & Ee, Benjamin W. van, 2017, A Nomenclator of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, and the Mascarene Islands, PhytoKeys 90, pp. 1-87 : 70

Croton macrostachyus Hochst. ex Delile, Voy. Abyssinie 3: 158. 1848

Oxydectes macrostachya (Hochst. ex Delile) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 610. 1891. Type. Based on Croton macrostachyus Hochst. ex Delile

Type.

[ Ethiopia] Abyssinicum : prope Djeladjeranne, 10 Aug 1840, W.P. Schimper 1665 (syntypes: BR [BR0000008252005], K [K000347438], K [K000347439], M [M0110345], M [M0110346], MO [1905790], MPU [MPU007279], P [P00540347], P [P00540348], P [P00540349]; possible isosyntype: MPU [MPU007276]). [ Ethiopia]: in regione inferiori septentrionali montis Scholoda, 20 Jun 1837, W.P. Schimper 196 (syntypes: BR [BR0000008252012], BR [BR0000008367969], HBG [HBG516429], HBG [HBG516430], K [K000347440], MPU [MPU007275], NY [NY00688543], S [S07-16861]) .

Notes.

Radcliffe-Smith (1996) gave the range of C. macrostachyus as "throughout tropical Africa from Guinée eastwards to Ethiopia and southwards to Angola and Mozambique; also in Madagascar." However, unlike for Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, he did not cite any specific specimens for Madagascar. Gentry 11408 (MO, P [P00433498]) from Ankaratra, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar, was determined by Gentry as C. macrostachyus , but it is actually a specimen of the native C. goudotii Baill.