Acalypheae
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The Acalypheae is a tribe
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 of the subfamily Acalyphoideae
Acalyphoideae
The Acalyphoideae is a subfamily belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae....

, under the 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...

 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....

. It comprises 12 subtribes and 32 genera.

Genera


Subtribe Acalyphinae
Acalypha
Acalypha is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole genus of the subtribe Acalyphinae. With 450 to 500 species of herbs and shrubs, the genus is only behind Euphorbia, Croton and Phyllanthus in term of Malpighiales diversity...

  • Acalypha
    Acalypha
    Acalypha is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the sole genus of the subtribe Acalyphinae. With 450 to 500 species of herbs and shrubs, the genus is only behind Euphorbia, Croton and Phyllanthus in term of Malpighiales diversity...

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Subtribe Adrianinae
Adriana (plant)
Adriana is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.Species include:*Adriana quadripartita Mull.Arg.*Adriana tomentosa Gaudich....

  • Adriana
    Adriana (plant)
    Adriana is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.Species include:*Adriana quadripartita Mull.Arg.*Adriana tomentosa Gaudich....

    Gaudich.
    Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré
    Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré was a French botanist.He was born in Angoulême, the son of J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology at Cognac and Angoulême. He also studied chemistry and herbology.His greatest claim to fame was serving as botanist on a circumglobal expedition from...


Subtribe Claoxylinae
  • Claoxylon
    Claoxylon
    Claoxylon is a flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, comprising dioecious subshrubs to small trees. The genus comprises about 80 species, distributed in paleotropical areas: Madagascar through South and Southeast Asia, Malesia to Melanesia, Hawaii, and Australia. Half of the...

    A.Juss.
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
    Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in...

  • Claoxylopsis
    Claoxylopsis
    Claoxylopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is endemic to Madagascar....

  • Discoclaoxylon
    Discoclaoxylon
    Discoclaoxylon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae....

  • Erythrococca
    Erythrococca
    Erythrococca is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises about 50 species, most of which are native to Africa, with 4 species in Southern Africa.-Synonyms:*Athroandra Pax & K.Hoffm.*Autrandra Pierre ex Prain...

  • Micrococca
    Micrococca
    Micrococca is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It has 14 species, native to tropical Africa, Madagascar and Asia ....


Subtribe Cleidiinae
  • Cleidion
    Cleidion
    Cleidion is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 25 species, which are pantropical.-Synonyms:*Lasiostyles C. Presl*Psilostachys Turcz.*Redia Casar.*Tetraglossa Bedd....

    Blume
    Carl Ludwig Blume
    Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume was a German-Dutch botanist.He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his professional life working in the Dutch East Indies and in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium at Leiden...

  • Sampantaea
  • Wetria
    Wetria
    Wetria is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 2 species found in Australia, New Guinea and Southeast Asia....


Subtribe Dysopsidinae
  • Dysopsis Baill.
    Henri Ernest Baillon
    Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. He was born in Calais on November 30, 1827 and died in Paris on July 19, 1895.Baillon spent his professional life as a professor of natural history, and he published numerous works on botany...


Subtribe Lasiococcinae
  • Clonostylis
  • Homonoia
  • Lasiococca
    Lasiococca
    Lasiococca is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 3 species. These are small to relatively large trees found in scrubs or semi-evergreen forests. They grow in India, Malesia and Northern Vietnam....

  • Spathiostemon
    Spathiostemon
    Spathiostemon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae comprising 2 species. One of them is endemic to Peninsular Thailand, the other one ranging throughout Malesia ....


Subtribe Lobaniliinae
Lobanilia
Lobanilia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole genus of the subtribe Lobaniliinae....

  • Lobanilia
    Lobanilia
    Lobanilia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole genus of the subtribe Lobaniliinae....


Subtribe Macaranginae
Macaranga
Macaranga is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae. Native to Africa, Australasia, Asia and the South Pacific, the genus comprises over 300 different species. These plants are noted for being recolonizers...

  • Macaranga
    Macaranga
    Macaranga is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae. Native to Africa, Australasia, Asia and the South Pacific, the genus comprises over 300 different species. These plants are noted for being recolonizers...

    Thouars
    Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
    Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars was an eminent French botanist.-Introduction:He was from an aristocrat family of the region of Anjou, where he grew up in the castle of Boumois, near Saumur...


Subtribe Mareyinae
  • Mareya
    Mareya
    Mareya is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 3 species, found in tropical West Africa.-Use:Mareya micrantha is said to have local anaesthetic properties. It is used as an abortifacient, hence its common name....

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  • Mareyopsis
    Mareyopsis
    Mareyopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae....


Subtribe Mercurialinae
  • Mercurialis
    Mercury (plant)
    Mercurialis is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, the spurges, known commonly as the mercuries. These are slender herbs , rhizomatious perennials and woody perennials...

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  • Leidesia
  • Seidelia
    Seidelia
    Seidelia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 3 species, endemic to Southern Africa....


Subtribe Ricininae
Castor oil plant
The castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It belongs to a monotypic genus, Ricinus, and subtribe, Ricininae. The evolution of castor and its relation to other species are currently being studied.Its seed is the castor bean which,...

  • Ricininus
    Castor oil plant
    The castor oil plant, Ricinus communis, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It belongs to a monotypic genus, Ricinus, and subtribe, Ricininae. The evolution of castor and its relation to other species are currently being studied.Its seed is the castor bean which,...

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Subtribe Rottlerinae
  • Avellanita
  • Coccoceras
    Coccoceras
    Coccoceras is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, comprising 4 species found from Myanmar to Borneo. This genus was until recently thought to be synonym of Mallotus....

  • Cordemoya
  • Deuteromallotus
    Deuteromallotus
    Deuteromallotus is a Malagasy genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. The genus has 2 species....

  • Mallotus
    Mallotus (plant)
    Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. 2 species are found in tropical Africa and Madagascar. About 140 species are found in East and Southeast Asia and from Indomalaysia to New Caledonia and Fiji, northern and eastern Australia...

  • Neotrewia
  • Octospermum
  • Rockinghamia
    Rockinghamia
    Rockinghamia is a plant genus of the spurge family . It comprises 2 species....

  • Trewia
    Trewia
    Trewia is a plant genus of the spurge family , comprising 2 species. It is found from the Himalaya to Hainan Island. These species have hard large fruits....

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