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Bridelia
	Bridelia retusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Phyllanthaceae
Subfamily:	Phyllanthoideae
Tribe:	Bridelieae
Subtribe:	Pseudolachnostylidinae
Genus:	Bridelia; Willd.
Synonyms
	Candelabria Hochst.; Gentilia A.Chev. & Beille; Pentameria Klotzsch ex Baill.; Tzellemtinia Chiov.; Neogoetzea Pax;

Bridelia is a genus of plants in the family Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1806.^[3]^[4]^[5] It is widespread across Africa, Australia, southern Asia, and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.^[2]^[6]^[7]

Bridelia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Endoclita malabaricus.

The genus Bridelia was named in the honor of Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow.^[3]

Species

As of February 2023^[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:^[8]

Bridelia adusta – Sarawak, Sabah
Bridelia affinis – Yunnan, Hainan, Thailand
Bridelia assamica – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
Bridelia atroviridis – tropical Africa
Bridelia balansae – Nansei-shoto, S China, Indochina, Taiwan
Bridelia brideliifolia – E + C + SE Africa
Bridelia cathartica – C + S Africa
Bridelia cinnamomea – Andaman Is, S Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia
Bridelia curtisii – Andaman & Nicobar, Indochina, Sumatra
Bridelia duvigneaudii – C Africa
Bridelia eranalis – Zaïre
Bridelia erapensis – Papua New Guinea
Bridelia exaltata – Queensland, New South Wales
Bridelia ferruginea – tropical Africa
Bridelia finalis – Queensland
Bridelia fordii Hemsl. – S China to Hainan
Bridelia glauca – S + SE + E Asia, Papuasia
Bridelia grandis – W + C Africa
Bridelia harmandii – Indochina
Bridelia insulana – SE Asia, Papuasia, Queensland, Micronesia
Bridelia leichhardtii – Queensland
Bridelia macrocarpa – Maluku, New Guinea
Bridelia micrantha – tropical – S Africa, Réunion
Bridelia microphylla – Somalia
Bridelia mollis – southern Africa
Bridelia montana – India
Bridelia moonii – Sri Lanka
Bridelia ndellensis – C Africa
Bridelia nicobarica – Nicobar Islands
Bridelia oligantha – Papua New Guinea
Bridelia ovata Decne. – Indo-China to W. Malesia
Bridelia parvifolia – Hainan, Vietnam
Bridelia pervilleana – Madagascar
Bridelia pustulata – Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines
Bridelia retusa – S China, S + SE Asia
Bridelia rhomboidalis – Madagascar
Bridelia ripicola – C Africa
Bridelia scleroneura – Yemen, tropical Africa
Bridelia sikkimensis – Himalayas
Bridelia somalensis – Somalia
Bridelia speciosa – W Africa
Bridelia stipularis – S + E + SE Asia
Bridelia taitensis – Kenya
Bridelia tenuifolia – Angola, Namibia
Bridelia tomentosa – S + E + SE Asia, New Guinea, Australia
Bridelia triplocarya – Papua New Guinea
Bridelia tulasneana – Madagascar
Bridelia verrucosa – NE India, Himalayas
Bridelia whitmorei – Pahang
Bridelia wilksii – Gabon

Formerly included

Moved to other genera (Aporosa, Cleistanthus, Damnacanthus, Phyllanthus, Scleropyrum).^[2]

B. acuminata - Phyllanthus triandrus
B. attenuata - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
B. buxifolia - Cleistanthus stipitatus
B. chartacea - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
B. collina - Cleistanthus collinus
B. diversifolia - Cleistanthus diversifolius
B. heterantha - Phyllanthus glomerulatus
B. horrida - Scleropyrum pentandrum^[9]
B. laurina - Cleistanthus stipitatus
B. loureiroi - Cleistanthus monoicus
B. monoica - Cleistanthus monoicus
B. oblongifolius - Cleistanthus oblongifolius
B. patula - Cleistanthus patulus
B. polystachya - Cleistanthus polystachyus
B. rufa - Cleistanthus rufus
B. rugosa - Aporosa lunata
B. sinica - Phyllanthus hohenackeri
B. spinosa DC. 1833 not (Roxb.) Willd. 1806 - Damnacanthus indicus
B. stipitata - Cleistanthus stipitatus
B. stipularis Hook. & Arn. 1837 not (L.) Blume 1826 - Cleistanthus stipularis

Bridelia retusa bark

Bridelia retusa leaves

References

^ 1874 illustration, tab. 55 of D. Brandis, Illustrations of the Forest Flora of North-West and Central India, 1874
^ ^a ^b ^c Govaerts, 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.
^ ^a ^b Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1806. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 4(2): 978-979 in Latin
^ Tropicos
^ Dressler, S. 1996. Proposal to conserve the name Bridelia (Euphorbiaceae) with a conserved spelling. Taxon 45: 337–338
^ Govaerts, 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.
^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 174 土蜜树属 tu mi shu shu Bridelia Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4: 978. 1806.
^ "Bridelia Willd." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
^ The Plant List, Bridelia horrida Dillwyn