''Adenochlaena'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

of the

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Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae (), the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of Euphorbia, the type genus of the family. Most spurges, such as ''Euphorbia paralias'', ar ...

first described as a genus in 1858. It is native to certain islands in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia (continent), ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ;Species # '' Adenochlaena leucocephala'' Baill. -

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Comoros The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, ...

# '' Adenochlaena zeylanica'' ( Baill.) Thwaites -

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;formerly included moved to other genera ''( Cladogynos Epiprinus Koilodepas )'' * ''A. calycina - Koilodepas calycinum'' * ''A. indica - Epiprinus mallotiformis'' * ''A. mallotiformis - Epiprinus mallotiformis'' * ''A. siamensis -

Cladogynos orientalis ''Cladogynos'' is a genus of shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1841. It contains only one known species, ''Cladogynos orientalis'', native to Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philip ...

'' * ''A. siletensis - Epiprinus siletianus''

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Epiprineae Euphorbiaceae genera Biota of the Indian Ocean Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon {{Euphorb-stub