Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Acalypha sericea
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida (= Dicotyledoneae)
Order
Euphorbiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Acalypha
Species
sericea
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Acalypha sericea var. sericea Andersson.
Origin: Endemic
- Andersson, N.J. (1861-1862) Ueber Die Vegetation der Galapagos-Inseln Linnaea 31: 571-631
- Andersson, N.J. (1858) Flora of the Galápagos Islands (translated from Swedish). Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academien Botanik 1: 3-34
- Andersson, N.J. (1855) Om Galápagos Öarnes Vegetation. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handl., Stockholm: 61-256.
- Robinson, B.L. (1902) Flora of the Galapagos Islands. Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Expedition to the Galapgaos Islands. Proc. Amer. Acad. 38(4): 78-270.
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Missouri Botanical Garden (eds.) (2013) The Plant List, Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January).
- Seberg, O. (1984) Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genus Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) in the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Nordic J. Botany 4(2): 159-190.
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Webster, G.L. (1970) Notes on Galápagos Euphorbiaceae. Madroño 20(5): 257-263.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Acalypha sericea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=16186. Accessed 31 October 2026.