Bocquillonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1862.Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1862. Adansonia 2: 225-227 in LatinTropicos The entire genus is endemic to New Caledonia (including smaller islands that are part of the territory).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGovaerts, 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. Molecular phylogenetic analyses suggest that Bocquillonia is nested in Alchornea.Wurdack, K. J., P. Hoffmann, and M. W. Chase (2005). Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Uniovulate Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbiaceae Sensu Stricto) Using Plastid rbcL and trnL-F DNA Sequences.” American Journal of Botany 92(8): 1397–1420.
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