Taxonomie
Webster, G. L. 2014. Euphorbiaceae. Sapindaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. [Ed]. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, 11. Flowering Plants. Eudicots: Malpighiales. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 51-216.

 

Statut pour la Guyane française
Silva, O., Dias, P., Riina, R. & Cordeiro, I. 2019. Redelimitation of Astraea lobata (Euphorbiaceae) and other taxonomic rearrangements in Astraea. Phytotaxa, 404(4): 127-136. [GF = N]

 

Analyses moléculaires
Silva, O., Riina, R. & Cordeiro, I. 2020. Phylogeny and biogeography of Astraea with new insights into the evolutionary history of Crotoneae (Euphorbiaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 145(undefined): 106738.

 

Date de publication : Arch. Naturgesch., 7(1): 194-195. 1841.

Etymologie : Dédié à Astrée, fille des Dieux grecs Zeus et Themis.

Taxonomie : D'après Silva et al. (Mol. Phyl. Evol., 145: 106738. 27/01/2020): "13 species found throughout the Neotropics, especially in dry environments, with its center of diversity in eastern Brazil and only the three weedy species in the genus reaching the Old Tropics." Voir aussi GBIF.

Type : Astraea lobata (L.) Klotzsch 1841 [≡ Croton lobatus L. 1753] (Mexique, Veracruz, Houstoun?).