''Argomuellera'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

plant Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...

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 a genus in the family. Most spurges, such as '' Euphorbia paralias'', are herbs, but some, ...

first described as a genus in 1894. It is native to sub-Saharan

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, and the Comoros Islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Droceloncia ''Droceloncia'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1959. It contains only one known species, ''Droceloncia rigidifolia'', native to Madagascar and to the nearby island of Mayotte Mayotte (; french: ...

'' or Pycnocoma * ''Argomuellera reticulata'' - '' Pycnocoma reticulata'' * ''Argomuellera rigidifolia'' - ''

Droceloncia rigidifolia ''Droceloncia'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1959. It contains only one known species, '' Droceloncia rigidifolia'', native to Madagascar and to the nearby island of Mayotte Mayotte (; french: ...

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Pycnocomeae Euphorbiaceae genera {{Euphorbiaceae-stub