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Ditta
Ditta is a genus of plants, under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1861. It is native to the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean.
Micrococca
Micrococca is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1849. It is native to tropical Africa, Madagascar and Asia (Old World Tropics).

Monotaxis
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Anthostema
Anthostema is a flowering plant genus in the Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to Africa and Madagascar.

Calycopeplus
Calycopeplus is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described by Jules Émile Planchon as a genus in 1861. The entire genus is endemic to Australia. Its closest relative is Neoguillauminia from New Caledonia.

Alchorneopsis
Alchorneopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1865. It is native to Central America, the Greater Antilles, and northern South America.

Micrandra
Micrandra is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1854. It is native to South America.
Crotonogyne
Crotonogyne is a shrub of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) first described as a genus in 1864. It is native to western and central Africa. It is dioecious.

Adenocline
Adenocline is a genus of plants, under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1843. It is native to southern Africa (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi).

Nealchornea
Nealchornea is a genus of trees in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1913. It is native to South America.

Algernonia
Algernonia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to Peru and Brazil.

Balakata
Balakata is a genus of trees in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1999. It is native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Himalayas, and New Guinea. The genus name was inspired by balákat-gúbat ("shoulder-tree"), the Philippine common name for B. luzonica.

Alphandia
Alphandia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1873. It is native to certain islands in the western Pacific (New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia).
Sphaerostylis
Sphaerostylis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1858. The entire genus is endemic to Madagascar.

Pausandra
Pausandra is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1870. It is native to Central America and South America.

Maprounea
Maprounea is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first named as a genus in 1775. It is native to tropical Africa, Trinidad, and tropical Central and South America.

Cephalocroton
Cephalocroton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1841. It is native to central, eastern, and southern Africa from Nigeria and Ethiopia south to KwaZulu-Natal.
Adenophaedra
Adenophaedra is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1874. It is native to tropical regions of South America and Central America.
Beyeria
Beyeria is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Euphorbiaceae known as turpentine bushes. It was first described as a genus in 1844. The entire genus is endemic to Australia.

Megistostigma
Megistostigma is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1887. It is native to southern China, Assam, and Southeast Asia.
Fontainea
Fontainea is a genus constituting part of the plant family Euphorbiaceae. The nine currently known species grow naturally in Queensland (Qld) and New South Wales (NSW) Australia (6 spp.), New Caledonia and Vanuatu (1 sp.), and Papua New Guinea (2 spp.). Some species are commonly named blushwood.

Bonania
Bonania is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1850. It is native to the West Indies.

Lobanilia
Lobanilia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the sole genus of the subtribe Lobaniliinae. It was first described as a genus in 1989 and is endemic to Madagascar.

Chiropetalum
Chiropetalum is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1832. It is widespread across relatively dry regions of North and South America from Texas to Uruguay.
False croton
Caperonia (false croton) is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical America and Africa.

Koilodepas
Koilodepas is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1856. It is native to Southeast Asia, India, Hainan, and New Guinea.

Sphyranthera
Sphyranthera is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus of its tribe (Sphyranthereae). It was first described in 1887. The entire genus is endemic to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, politically part of India but geographically closer to Myanmar.
Epiprinus
Epiprinus is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1854. It is native to Indochina, Sumatra, southern China, and the Indian subcontinent.

Baloghia
Baloghia is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1833. It is native to Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe I., Norfolk Island), New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. Cocconerion is a close relative.

Bertya
Bertya is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Bertya are shrubs, usually monoecious, with simple leaves, flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, male flowers with many stamens, female flowers usually smaller and narrower than male flowers, and the fruit a capsule containing a single seed.
Cephalomappa
Cephalomappa is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1874. It is native to Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra.

Sclerocroton
Sclerocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1845. There a total of 6 known species in this genus; 5 species in continental Africa and a single species in Madagascar.

Cnesmone
Cnesmone is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1826. It is native to southern China and to much of Southeast Asia (Indochina, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.).

Cleidiocarpon
Cleidiocarpon is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1965. It is native to China and Indochina.
Necepsia
Necepsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910. It is native to Madagascar and to tropical Africa.

Actinostemon
Actinostemon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1841. It is native to South America, Central America, and the West Indies.

Sagotia
Sagotia is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1860. It is native to northern South America.

Colliguaja
Colliguaja is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1782. It is native to South America.

Shirakiopsis
Shirakiopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1999. There are six known species, 3 native to tropical Asia and 3 to tropical Africa.
Lasiococca
Lasiococca is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1887. These are small to relatively large trees (up to 8 m high) found in scrubs or semi-evergreen forests. They grow in India, Indochina, Southeast Asia, and southern China.
Lasiocroton
Lasiocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1859. The genus is endemic to the West Indies. It is a member of the Leucocroton alliance, which also includes Leucocroton and Garciadelia. Species in this alliance are dioecious.

Angostylis
Angostylis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1854. The genus is native to northern South America (Suriname and northern Brazil).

Ophthalmoblapton
Ophthalmoblapton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1849. The entire genus is endemic to eastern Brazil.

Erismanthus
Erismanthus is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1866. It is native to Southeast Asia and southern China.

Deutzianthus
Deutzianthus is a genus of trees, from the family Euphorbiaceae. It was first described as a genus in 1924. They are found in Vietnam, southern China, and Sumatra.

Benoistia
Benoistia is a genus of shrubs or trees of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) and the monotypic subtribe Benoistiinae. It was first described as a genus in 1939. The entire genus is endemic to Madagascar. It is dioecious.

Crotonogynopsis
Crotonogynopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1899. It is native to tropical Africa.
Hancea
Hancea is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to tropical Asia and the western Indian Ocean.
Ptychopyxis
Ptychopyxis is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1861. It is native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea.
Sandwithia
Sandwithia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described in 1932. It is native to northern South America. It is dioecious. The genus is named in honour of the botanist Noel Yvri Sandwith.
Pimelodendron
Pimelodendron is a plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1855. It is native to insular Southeast Asia, Thailand, Papuasia, and Queensland.
Grimmeodendron
Grimmeodendron is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1908. It is native to the West Indies.
Microstachys
Microstachys is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to tropical Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Papuasia, Mesoamerica, the West Indies, and South America.
Pseudagrostistachys
Pseudagrostistachys is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1912. It is native to tropical Africa.

Senefelderopsis
Senefelderopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.
It is native to southern tropical America, and found in Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela.

Spathiostemon
Spathiostemon is a genus of trees in the Euphorbiaceae family. It is native to the Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Wallacea and Southeast Asia.
The trees grow between 10 and 20m tall, often in secondary forest.
The wood is sometimes used.

Discoclaoxylon
Discoclaoxylon is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1914. It is native to western and central Africa, including islands in the Gulf of Guinea.
Neoscortechinia
Neoscortechinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897. It is native to Southeast Asia and Papuasia.
Grossera
Grossera is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1903. It is native to Madagascar and to mainland tropical Africa. It is dioecious.
Cavacoa
Cavacoa is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1955. All the species are native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is dioecious.