page_title: Dalechampia
hierarchical_section_title: Dalechampia
caption_attribution_description: Dalechampia caperonioides - EUPHORBIACEAE Chapada Imperial - Brasília - Distrito Federal - Brasil.
context_page_description: Dalechampia is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monogeneric subtribe Dalechampiinae. It is widespread across lowland tropical areas primarily in the Americas with smaller numbers of species in Africa, Madagascar, and southern Asia. Additional new species are still being described and several are very rare and at risk of extinction.
  Dalechampia has unisexual flowers that are secondarily united into bisexual blossoms, which act as the pollination units. The pollination and floral evolution of this genus have been studied more intensively than perhaps any other member of the euphorbia family. In the neotropics, most species are pollinated by resin-collecting female bees, including euglossine bees and Hypanthidium of the Megachilidae, which use resin in nest construction. About a dozen neotropical species are pollinated by fragrance-collecting male euglossine bees, which use these fragrances to attract females for mating. There are at least three independent pollination shifts from pollination by female resin-collecting bees to pollination by male fragrance-collecting bees.
context_section_description: Dalechampia is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monogeneric subtribe Dalechampiinae. It is widespread across lowland tropical areas (generally below 2,000 m ASL) primarily in the Americas with smaller numbers of species in Africa, Madagascar, and southern Asia. Additional new species are still being described and several are very rare and at risk of extinction.
  Dalechampia has unisexual flowers that are secondarily united into bisexual blossoms (pseudanthia), which act as the pollination units.  The pollination and floral evolution of this genus have been studied more intensively than perhaps any other member of the euphorbia family. In the neotropics (Americas), most species are pollinated by resin-collecting female bees, including euglossine bees and Hypanthidium of the Megachilidae, which use resin in nest construction. About a dozen neotropical species (including D. spathulata, shown below) are pollinated by fragrance-collecting male euglossine bees, which use these fragrances to attract females for mating. There are at least three independent pollination shifts from pollination by female resin-collecting bees to pollination by male fragrance-collecting bees.   African and Asian species are also pollinated by resin-collecting megachilid bees, but Malagasy species are pollinated by pollen-feeding beetles and pollen-collecting bees.
  Two species are of horticultural interest, D. spathulata and D. aristolochiifolia, have particularly showy blossoms with bright pink/purple bracts.  Dalechampia aristolochiifolia, from Peru, has become very popular recently, but it is mistakenly advertised and distributed under the name D. dioscoreifolia.
  Species
  Dalechampia adscendens – Bolivia, Mato Grosso do Sul
  Dalechampia affinis – N South America
  Dalechampia alata – Bahia, Rio de Janeiro
  Dalechampia albibracteosa – El Beni
  Dalechampia allemii – Bahia
  Dalechampia anomala – Paraguay, Paraná
  Dalechampia arciana – Bahia
  Dalechampia arenalensis – Costa Rica
  Dalechampia aristolochiifolia – Peru
  Dalechampia armbrusteri – Bahia, Espírito Santo
  Dalechampia attenuistylus – Venezuela, Suriname, Fr Guiana
  Dalechampia bangii – Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul
  Dalechampia bernieri – Madagascar
  Dalechampia bidentata – Yunnan, SE Asia
  Dalechampia boliviana – Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio Grande do Sul
  Dalechampia brasiliensis – E Brazil
  Dalechampia brevicolumna – Suriname, Fr Guiana
  Dalechampia brevipedunculata – Amazonas in Brazil
  Dalechampia brevipes – Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo
  Dalechampia brownsbergensis – NE South America
  Dalechampia burchellii – Goiás
  Dalechampia burgeriana – Costa Rica
  Dalechampia burmanica – Myanmar
  Dalechampia canescens – SE Central America, NW South America
  Dalechampia capensis – E + S Africa
  Dalechampia caperonioides – Goiás, Brasília, Minas Gerais
  Dalechampia catati – Madagascar
  Dalechampia chevalieri – Cameroon, Central African Rep
  Dalechampia chlorocephala – Madagascar
  Dalechampia cissifolia – Mexico, Central America, NW + W South America
  Dalechampia clausseniana – Brazil
  Dalechampia clematidifolia – Madagascar
  Dalechampia convolvuloides – E Brazil
  Dalechampia coriacea – Bahia
  Dalechampia cujabensis – Mato Grosso
  Dalechampia decaryi – Madagascar
  Dalechampia denticulata – Cuba
  Dalechampia dioscoreifolia from Nicaragua to Bolivia
  Dalechampia elongata – N Thailand
  Dalechampia falcata – Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  Dalechampia fernandesii – Ceará
  Dalechampia ficifolia – E Brazil
  Dalechampia fragrans – Suriname, French Guiana
  Dalechampia francisceana – Minas Gerais
  Dalechampia galpinii – southern Africa
  Dalechampia gentryi – Peru, NW Brazil
  Dalechampia glechomifolia – S Brazil, Misiones
  Dalechampia granadilla – Rio de Janeiro
  Dalechampia guaranitica – Paraguay
  Dalechampia hassleriana – Paraguay, Paraná
  Dalechampia hastata – Amazonas in Brazil
  Dalechampia herzogiana – Bolivia, Mato Grosso do Sul
  Dalechampia heterobractea – N Brazil, Venezuela, 3 Guianas
  Dalechampia hispida – Peru, Ecuador
  Dalechampia humilis – Brazil
  Dalechampia hutchisoniana – Peru
  Dalechampia ilheotica – Pernambuco, Bahia
  
caption: Dalechampia caperonioides
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