Hieronyma is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 belonging to the plant

Plant

Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Phyllanthaceae

Phyllanthaceae

Phyllanthaceae is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. It is most closely related to the family Picrodendraceae. The Phyllanthaceae are most numerous in the tropics, with many in the south temperate zone, and a few ranging as far north as the middle of the north temperate...

. This family was formerly united with spurge

Spurge

Euphorbia is a genus of plants belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Consisting of 2008 species, Euphorbia is one of the most diverse genera in the plant kingdom, exceeded possibly only by Senecio. Members of the family and genus are sometimes referred to as Spurges...

s, crotons

Croton (genus)

Croton is an extensive flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also...

, copperleaves, etc (Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae, the Spurge family are a large family of flowering plants with 300 genera and around 7,500 species. Most are herbs, but some, especially in the tropics, are also shrubs or trees. Some are succulent and resemble cacti....

), but have turned out to be well distinct.

The spelling Hieronyma has been conserved; the spellings Hieronima and Hyeronima are orthographical variants

Orthographical variant (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, an orthographical variant is a variant spelling of the same name. For example, Hieronima and Hyeronima are orthographical variants of Hieronyma. One of the spellings is to be treated as the correct one.Priority starts with this date of publication, if not otherwise...

 of this name.

Hieronyma is used locally as a foodplant, e.g. by the Nukak

Nukak

The Nukak people live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and in addition they practice a shifting...

 of Guaviare Department

Guaviare Department

Guaviare is a department of Colombia. It is in the southern central region of the country. Its capital is San José del Guaviare. Guaviare was created on July 4, 1991 by the new Political Constitution of Colombia...

 in Amazonian Colombia

Colombia

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. Several species

Species

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 are threatened by deforestation

Deforestation

Deforestation is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a nonforest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use....

.

Selected species

• Hieronyma alchorneoides Allemão
• Hieronyma clusioides
  Hieronyma clusioides
  Hieronyma clusioides is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, which was recently separated from the Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Puerto Rico. It is locally known as Cedro Macho.-Source:...
  
  – Cedro Macho
• Hieronyma colombiana
• Hieronyma crassistipula
  Hieronyma crassistipula
  Hieronyma crassistipula is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, which was recently separated from the Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Cuba.-Source:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
  
  
• Hieronyma jamaicensis
  Hieronyma jamaicensis
  Hieronyma jamaicensis is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, which was recently separated from the Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...
  
  
• Hieronyma macrocarpa
  Hieronyma macrocarpa
  Hieronyma macrocarpa is a species of plant in the family Phyllanthaceae, which was recently separated from the Euphorbiaceae. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador.-Source:* Calderon, E. 1998. . Downloaded on 21 August 2007....
  
  
• Hieronyma oblonga
• Hieronyma rufa