Category
page 1Hippomaneae

Hippomane mancinella
The manchineel tree (Hippomane mancinella), also known as the tree of death, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Its native range stretches from tropical southern North America to northern South America.
Triadica sebifera
species of plant
Sapium
Sapium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies. Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the Old World species into other genera.

Spirostachys africana
species of plant
Triadica
Triadica is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790. It is native to eastern, southeastern, and southern Asia.

Homalanthus
Homalanthus is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described in 1824. It is the only genus in the subtribe Carumbiinae. It is native to mainland Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, northern and eastern Australia, and various islands in the Pacific.
Hippomane
Hippomane is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, Florida, Venezuela, Colombia, and Galápagos.
Spirostachys
Spirostachys is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1850. It is native to Africa.
Gymnanthes
Gymnanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1788. It is found primarily in the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere (from Florida and Mexico south to Argentina), but with some species in central Africa and southwestern Southeast Asia.

Colliguaja odorifera
species of plant
Sapium glandulosum
species of plant
Mabea
genus of plants
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.
Colliguaja
Colliguaja is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1782. It is native to South America.
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.

Bonania
Bonania is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1850. It is native to the West Indies.
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.
Shirakiopsis indica
species of plant
Gymnanthes lucida
species of plant
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.
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.
Mexican jumping bean
seed pods inhabited by a moth larva, known for "jumping" when heated
Dendrocousinsia
Dendrocousinsia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1913. The entire genus is endemic to the Island of Jamaica.
Senefeldera
Senefeldera is a plant genus of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Their wood can be used as timber, in handicraft and as firewood. It is native to Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.
Senefelderopsis
Senefelderopsis is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae.
It is native to southern tropical America, and found in Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela.
Omalanthus populifolius
species of plant

Homalanthus nutans
species of plant
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.
Grimmeodendron
Grimmeodendron is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1908. It is native to the West Indies.
Hippomane spinosa
species of plant
Dalembertia
Dalembertia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to Mexico and Guatemala.
Sclerocroton integerrimus
species of plant
Homalanthus polyandrus
species of plant
Rhodothyrsus
Rhodothyrsus is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1999. It is native to South America.
Triadica cochinchinensis
species of plant
Hippomaneae
Hippomaneae is a tribe of flowering plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 2 subtribes and 33 genera.
Homalanthus novoguineensis
species of plant in the family Euphorbiaceae
Dendrothrix
Dendrothrix is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1996. It is native to southern Venezuela and northwestern Brazil.
Neoshirakia
Neoshirakia, known as milktree, is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae, native to east Asia. It is part of a group first described in 1954 with the name Shirakia, but this proved to be an illegitimate name, unacceptable under the Code of Nomenclature. The genus was later divided, with its species distributed amongst three genera: Neoshirakia, Shirakiopsis, and Triadica. Neoshirakia contains only one known species, Neoshirakia japonica, known as tallow tree, native to China, Korea, and Japan (including Nansei-shotō). The name Shirakia thus became a synonym of Neoshirakia because S. japonica
Balakata luzonica
species of plant
Sapium bourgeaui
species of plant
Colliguaja dombeyana
species of plant
Gymnanthes integra
species of plant
Grimmeodendron jamaicense
species of plant
Gymnanthes glandulosa
species of plant
Sapium triloculare
species of plant
Homalanthus stokesii
species of plant
Shirakiopsis aubrevillei
species of plant
Hippomaninae
Hippomaninae are plants of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a subtribe of the Hippomaneae and has 32 genera:
Sapium harrisii
species of plant
Falconeria
Falconeria is a monotypic plant genus in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1839. The genus is sometimes included within the genus Sapium. The sole species is Falconeria insignis. The plant is found from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to Indochina, China (Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan), Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia.
Dendrocousinsia fasciculata
species of plant
Dendrocousinsia spicata
species of plant
Dendrocousinsia alpina
species of plant