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- Although species of the family grow throughout the world, except in cold alpine or arctic regions, most of them are found in temperate or tropical regions.
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Although species of the family grow throughout the world, except in cold alpine or arctic regions, most of them are found in temperate or tropical regions. The family consists of annual and perennial herbs and woody shrubs or trees as well as a few climbers. Physical description. tread-softly. Tread-softly (Cnidoscolus stimulosus).
- 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
Like all members of the family Euphorbiaceae, spurges have unisexual flowers. In Euphorbia , flowers occur in a head, called the cyathium (plural cyathia). Each male or female flower in the cyathium head has only its essential sexual part, in males the stamen , and in females the pistil .
- Euphorbia, L.
- Malpighiales
All the species occur in the wild of the whole humid tropic Amazon basin and parts of the uplands, covering Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. The Rio Negro region of the Amazon basin in Brazil is considered as the center of genetic diversity of the genus Hevea.
EUPHORBIACEAE By Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, Kenneth J. Wurdack & Ramona Oviedo (Oct 2020) A pantropical family extending into the temperate zone, with about 230 genera and over 6000 species of herbs, shrubs, trees, vines, and lianas. Climbers are represented in the Neotropics by 12 genera and about 170 species that occur in a
The Euphorbiaceae family is distributed worldwide, with the highest diversity found in tropical and subtropical regions. Many species are indigenous to Africa but can also be found in Asia, the Americas, and Oceania.
15 genera and ~168 species that occur in a wide range of habitats, including moist, wet or dry forests, scrublands, savannas, and open disturbed biomes but most diverse below 1,500 m of elevation. Diagnostics: Recognized by their alternate, stipulate, simple, lobed to compound leaves, usually
