Acalypha communis Mull. Arg.

22. Acalypha communis Müll.Arg. nom. cons. Linnaea 34 (1): 23 (Müller Argoviensis 1865). ≡ Ricinocarpus communis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze; = Acalypha hirsuta Mart. ex Colla nom. rej.; = A. communis var. tomentosa Müll.Arg.; = A. cuprea Herzog. Habit Subshrub or shrub. Native. Habitat Central Andes: Yungas; Amazonian-Orinocan Lowland: Amazon Irregular Plains and Piedmont; Eastern Highlands: Cerrados; Gran Chaco: Western Dry Chaco and Humid Chaco; Pampas: Northern Rolling Pampas, alt. 100‒1200(‒2000) m. Distribution Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. References Cardiel et al. (2013a, 2022b). Provisional conservation status LC. Remarks Acalypha communis is a morphologically complex species that includes numerous infraspecific taxa; five subspecies are currently recognised (Cardiel et al. 2013). Some specimens of A. communis present mixed characters that make it difficult to assign them to the accepted subspecies. Probably these subspecies can hybridise in areas where they coexist, but further study is required.Published as part of Cardiel, José María, Muñoz-Rodríguez, Pablo, González-Berdasco, Álvaro & Montero-Muñoz, Iris, 2023, Catalogue and red list of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae) from South America, pp. 1-92 in European Journal of Taxonomy 886 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.886.2201, http://zenodo.org/record/822265