A Nomenclator of Croton (Euphorbiaceae) in Madagascar, the Comoros Archipelago, and the Mascarene Islands Author Berry, Paul E. Herbarium, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, U. S. A. peberry@umich.edu Author Kainulainen, Kent Herbarium, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 3600 Varsity Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108, U. S. A. Author Ee, Benjamin W. van Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto Universitario de Mayagueez, Mayagueez, PR 00680, Puerto Rico, U. S. A. text PhytoKeys 2017 2017-11-15 90 1 87 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.90.20586 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.90.20586 1314-2003-90-1 80067D29FFFB7D34FF80E95D553F4254 1138341 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 Guinee 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.