''Acidocroton'' is a
genus of
plants under the
family Euphorbiaceae first described with this name in 1859. It is native to
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
and the
Greater Antilles.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref>[Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.]
Etymologically, the name ''Acidocroton'' means "sour croton".
;Species[
;formerly included
moved to '' Ophellantha''
# ''Acidocroton spinosus - Ophellantha spinosa''
# ''Acidocroton steyermarkii - Ophellantha steyermarkii''
]
References
Codiaeae
Euphorbiaceae genera
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