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Euphorbiaceae is the spurge family of flowering plants and comprises some 6,745 species in 218 genera. Many members, such as cassava, are important food sources. Others are useful for their waxes and oils and as a source of medicinal drugs.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The family Euphorbiaceae is the fifth-largest flowering plant family and has about 7,500 species organised into 300 genera, 37 tribes, and three subfamilies: Acalyphoideae, Crotonoideae and Euphorbioideae.
- Euphorbiaceae, Juss.
- Malpighiales
Euphorbiaceae is a large family of plants with over 300 genera and 7, species. These plants are found all over the world but are most diverse in tropical and subtropical regions. Euphorbiaceae includes a wide variety of plants, including trees, shrubs, herbs, and succulents.
Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to the type genus ), not just to members of the genus.
- Euphorbia, L.
- Malpighiales
A pantropical family extending into the temperate zone, with ~230 genera and over 6,000. species of herbs, shrubs, trees, vines, and lianas. Climbers are represented in the Neotropics by. 15 genera and ~168 species that occur in a wide range of habitats, including moist, wet or dry.
Family: Euphorbiaceae — spurge family. Plants in the Euphorbiaceae in our region are annual or perennial herbs. The leaves are simple and typically alternate, though they maybe opposite or whorled in some species. The flowers are very small, are actinomorphic (radially symmetrical) and usually have either pollen -bearing or ovule -bearing ...
