''Chaetocarpus'' is a

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 ...

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 ...

of the

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

Peraceae Peraceae Klotzsch is a family of flowering plants in the eudicot order Malpighiales. The family was segregated from the Euphorbiaceae by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch in 1859, and its uniqueness was affirmed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Euph ...

, formerly

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 1854.Tropicos, genus ''Chaetocarpus''
/ref> ''Chaetocarpus'' species are

tree In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are ...

s or shrubs. They are native to the Americas,

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

,Breteler, F. J. (2002)
Novitates Gabonenses 46. A new ''Chaetocarpus'' (Euphorbiaceae) from Gabon.
''Adansonia'' 24(2) 221-27. and

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an ...

.''Chaetocarpus''.
Flora of China.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> Some species are endangered.World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998
''Chaetocarpus pubescens''
In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Retrieved 8 May 2013. ;Species # '' Chaetocarpus acutifolius'' (Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi – Sierra de Moa in Cuba # '' Chaetocarpus africanus'' Pax – C Africa # '' Chaetocarpus castanocarpus'' (Roxb.) Thwaites – SE Asia,

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka # '' Chaetocarpus cordifolius'' (Urb.) Borhidi – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica # '' Chaetocarpus coriaceus'' Thwaites – Sri Lanka # '' Chaetocarpus cubensis'' Fawc. & Rendle – Cuba # '' Chaetocarpus echinocarpus'' (Baill.) Ducke – Bolivia, Brazil # '' Chaetocarpus ferrugineus'' Philcox – Sri Lanka # '' Chaetocarpus gabonensis'' Breteler – Gabon # '' Chaetocarpus globosus'' (Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle – Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep. # '' Chaetocarpus myrsinites'' Baill. – Bolivia, Brazil # '' Chaetocarpus parvifolius'' Borhidi – Cuba # '' Chaetocarpus pearcei'' Rusby – Bolivia # '' Chaetocarpus pubescens'' (Thwaites) Hook.f. – Sri Lanka # '' Chaetocarpus rabaraba'' Capuron – Madagascar # '' Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus'' (Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm. – Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil ;member of homonymic genus, synonym of ''

Pouteria ''Pouteria'' is a genus of flowering trees in the gutta-percha family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical regions of the world. It includes the canistel ('' P. campechiana''), the mamey sapote ('' P. sapota''), and the l ...

'' ''Chaetocarpus pouteria'' J.F.Gmel, synonym of '' Pouteria guianensis'' Aubl. (

Sapotaceae 240px, '' Madhuca longifolia'' var. ''latifolia'' in Narsapur, Medak district, India The Sapotaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants belonging to the order (biology), order Ericales. The family includes about 800 species of ev ...

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Peraceae Malpighiales genera {{Malpighiales-stub