''Choriceras'' is a

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Picrodendraceae Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 speciesStephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/ in 25 genera. These are subtropical to Tropics, ...

first described as a genus in 1874. ''Choriceras'' is native to

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and to northern

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.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 # '' Choriceras majus'' Airy Shaw -

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# '' Choriceras tricorne'' (Benth.) Airy Shaw -

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Taxonomy of the Picrodendraceae As the family Picrodendraceae is erected from the bases of subfamily Oldfieldioideae, its taxonomy remains the same: Tribe Caletieae There are 4 subtribes and 13 genera: :Subtribe Dissiliariinae ::''Austrobuxus'' (also ''Buraeavia'', ''Bureau ...

Picrodendraceae Malpighiales genera Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon Flora of the Australasian realm {{Malpighiales-stub