Codiaeum [SEP] parent taxon
Codiaeum
Codiaeum is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to insular Southeast Asia, northern Australia and Papuasia.
They are shrubs with leathery leaves and often confused with the genus "Croton". Some species, especially "Codiaeum variegatum", are cultivated as houseplants.
- Species
- formerly included
moved to other genera: "Austrobuxus Baloghia Blachia Fontainea Sphyranthera Trigonostemon"
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of