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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.
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The Euphorbiaceae family consists of about 300 genera and 7500 species better developed in tropical and subtropical regions. The largest genus is Euphorbia L., with over 2000 species found in the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa and America, and also in temperate zones worldwide.
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Introduction to Euphorbiales: According to Hutchinson this is the thirty fifth order of the phylum Angiospermae, sub phylum Dicotyledones and division Lignosae. The order consists of a single family, i.e., the Euphorbiaceae which has been described in the present text in detail.
Jul 19, 2022 · Euphorbia is a genus of about 2,000 species of flowering plants in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, making it one of the largest genera currently in existence. Herbs, shrubs, trees, this genus has them all.
General Characters of Euphorbiaceae: Plants—minute herbs to huge trees, monoecious or dioecious, often with milky latex. Leaves—usually alternate, may be opposite or whorled (in many cases the upper ones are opposite while lower ones alternate), simple, entire or palmately lobed, very rarely compound (e.g., species of Bischofia), while in ...
: a widely distributed family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Geraniales) with usually milky often poisonous juice, unisexual flowers, and a superior usually trilocular ovary and including several medicinal plants (such as those yielding castor oil and croton oil), several trees yielding caoutchouc, and the cassava see hevea, manihot.
Most climbers in Euphorbiaceae are twiners (i.e., Bia, Dalechampia, Omphalea, Platygyna, Plukenetia, Romanoa, Tragia and Zuckertia); the remaining genera (i.e., Acidocroton, Croton, Euphorbia, Mabea, and Manihot) are scramblers that climb by growing over the surrounding vegetation.
