''Chaetocarpus'' is a

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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 Euphorbia, the type genus of the family. Most spurges, such as ''Euphorbia paralias'', ar ...

, first described as a genus in 1854.Tropicos, genus ''Chaetocarpus''
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s or

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s. They are native to the

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

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.''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,

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, 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 plant, flowering trees in the gutta-percha family (biology), family, Sapotaceae. The genus is widespread throughout the tropical Americas, with outlier species in Cameroon and Malesia. It includes the canistel ...

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

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Peraceae Malpighiales genera {{Malpighiales-stub