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''Drypetes'' is a
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of the
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Putranjivaceae Putranjivaceae is a rosid family that is composed of 218 species in 2 genera of evergreen tropical trees that are found mainly in the Old World tropics, but with a few species in tropical America. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriace ...
, in the order
Malpighiales The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest Order (biology), orders of flowering plants. The order is very diverse, with well-known members including willows, Viola (plant), violets, aspens and Populus, poplars, Euphorbia pulcherrima, poinsett ...
. It was previously in the family
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 ...
, tribe
Drypeteae Putranjivaceae is a rosid family that is composed of 218 species in 2 genera of evergreen tropical trees that are found mainly in the Old World tropics, but with a few species in tropical America. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriace ...
, and was the sole
pantropical A pantropical ("all tropics") distribution is one which covers tropical regions of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. Examples of species include caecilians, modern sirenians and the plant genera ''Acacia'' and ''Bacopa''. ''Neotropical' ...
zoochorous In spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their seeds, including both abiotic vectors, ...
genus of the family. The genus comprises about 200
species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
, found in
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, southern
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,
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,
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, the
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, southern
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, and various oceanic islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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dioecious Dioecy ( ; ; adj. dioecious, ) is a characteristic of certain species that have distinct unisexual individuals, each producing either male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproduction is ...
trees or shrubs. Along with ''
Putranjiva ''Putranjiva'' is a plant genus of the family (biology), family Putranjivaceae, first described as a genus in 1826. It is native to Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Japan, southern China, and New Guinea. Along with ''Drypetes'' (of the ...
'', also in the
Putranjivaceae Putranjivaceae is a rosid family that is composed of 218 species in 2 genera of evergreen tropical trees that are found mainly in the Old World tropics, but with a few species in tropical America. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriace ...
, ''Drypetes'' contains the only plants outside the
Brassicales The Brassicales (or Cruciales) are an order (biology), order of flowering plants, belonging to the malvid group of eudicotyledons under the APG IV system. Well-known members of Brassicales include cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprout, broccoli, ...
known to contain mustard oils.


Species

The Kew ''World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP)'' lists: # ''
Drypetes acuminata ''Drypetes'' is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, in the order Malpighiales. It was previously in the family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family. The genus comprises about 200 s ...
'' – Queensland # '' Drypetes aetoxyloides'' – Sabah # '' Drypetes aframensis'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes afzelii'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes alba'' – West Indies # '' Drypetes amazonica'' – Ecuador, NW Brazil # '' Drypetes ambigua'' – Madagascar # '' Drypetes andamanica'' – Myanmar, Andaman Is # '' Drypetes angustifolia'' – Central Africa # '' Drypetes arcuatinervia'' – China, Vietnam # '' Drypetes arguta'' – E + S Africa # '' Drypetes assamica'' – E Himalayas, N Indochina # ''
Drypetes aubrevillei ''Drypetes'' is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, in the order Malpighiales. It was previously in the family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family. The genus comprises about 200 s ...
'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes australis'' –
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# ''Drypetes aylmeri'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes bakembei'' – Central African Republic # ''Drypetes balakrishnanii'' – Bangladesh, Myanmar # ''Drypetes bathiei'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes bawanii'' – Philippines # ''Drypetes bhattacharyae'' – Andaman & Nicobar # ''Drypetes bipindensis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes bisacuta'' – Laos # ''Drypetes brownii'' – S Mexico, C America # ''Drypetes caesia'' – Sabah, Kalimantan # ''Drypetes calvescens'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes calyptosepala'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes cambodica'' – Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar # ''Drypetes capillipes'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes capuronii'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes carolinensis'' – Yap # ''Drypetes castilloi'' – Sabah # ''Drypetes caustica'' – Réunion # ''Drypetes celastrinea'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes celebica'' – Sulawesi, W New Guinea # ''Drypetes chevalieri'' – W + C Africa # ''Drypetes cinnabarina'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes cockburnii'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes comorensis'' – Mayotte # ''Drypetes confertiflora'' – Karnataka # ''Drypetes congestiflora'' – China, Philippines # ''Drypetes convoluta'' – Luzon # ''Drypetes crassipes'' – Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia # ''Drypetes cumingii'' – China, Philippines # ''Drypetes curtisii'' – S Indochina, Borneo # ''Drypetes darcyana'' – Mayotte # ''Drypetes darimontiana'' – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaïre # ''Drypetes dasycarpa'' – Thailand # ''Drypetes dasyneura'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes deplanchei'' – New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia # ''Drypetes detersibilis'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes dewildei'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes dinklagei'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes diopa'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes diversifolia'' – Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hispaniola # ''Drypetes dolichocarpa'' – Saipan # ''Drypetes dussii'' – Martinique # ''Drypetes eglandulosa'' – Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar # ''Drypetes ellipsoidea'' – Leyte # †''Drypetes elliptica'' – either Myanmar or Andaman Islands but extinct # ''Drypetes ellisii'' – Andaman Islands # ''Drypetes eriocarpa'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes euryodes'' – Gabon, Angola # ''Drypetes falcata'' – Camiguin # ''Drypetes fallax'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes fanshawei'' – Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador # ''Drypetes fernandopoana'' – Bioko # ''Drypetes floribunda'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes forbesii'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes fusiformis'' – Sabah, Kalimantan # ''Drypetes gabonensis'' – Gabon, Congo # ''Drypetes gardneri'' – India, Sri Lanka # ''Drypetes gentryi'' – Mexico # ''Drypetes gerrardii'' – E + S Africa # ''Drypetes gerrardinoides'' – Tanzania # ''Drypetes gilgiana'' – W + C Africa # ''Drypetes gitingensis'' – Sibuyan # ''Drypetes glaberrima'' – W New Guinea # ''Drypetes glabra'' – Rolas I., São Tomé # ''Drypetes glabridiscus'' – Sulawesi # ''Drypetes glauca'' – West Indies # ''Drypetes globosa'' – Philippines # ''Drypetes gossweileri'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes gracilis'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes grandifolia'' – Philippines # ''Drypetes guatemalensis'' – Guatemala # ''Drypetes hainanensis'' – Hainan, Thailand, Vietnam, Sabah, Sulawesi # ''Drypetes harmandii'' – Laos, Thailand # ''Drypetes helferi'' – Myanmar, Thailand # ''Drypetes henriquesii'' – São Tomé # ''Drypetes heptandra'' – Philippines # ''Drypetes hoaensis'' – Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam # ''Drypetes iliae'' – Sabah, Sarawak # ''Drypetes ilicifolia'' – Jamaica, Dominican Rep, Puerto Rico # ''Drypetes impressinervis'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes inaequalis'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes indica'' – S China, E Himalayas, N Indochina # ''Drypetes integerrima'' – Ogasawara-shoto, Kazan-retto # ''Drypetes integrifolia'' – S China # ''Drypetes iodoformis'' – Queensland # ''Drypetes ituriensis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes ivorensis'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes jaintensis'' – Meghalaya # ''Drypetes kalamii'' – West Bengal, India # ''Drypetes kikir'' – Malaysia, Borneo # ''Drypetes klainei'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes kwangtungensis'' – Guangdong # ''Drypetes laciniata'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes laevis'' – Sumatra, Borneo # ''Drypetes lasiogynoides'' – New Guinea # ''Drypetes lateriflora'' – West Indies, Mexico, C America, Florida # ''Drypetes leiocarpa'' – Nicobar Islands # ''Drypetes leonensis'' – W + C Africa # ''Drypetes littoralis'' – Taiwan, Java, Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines # ''Drypetes longifolia'' – SE Asia, New Guinea # ''Drypetes longistipitata'' – Hainan # ''Drypetes macrostigma'' – Kalimantan # ''Drypetes madagascariensis'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes magnistipula'' – Gabon, Cameroon # ''Drypetes malabarica'' – Tamil Nadu # ''Drypetes maquilingensis'' – Philippines, Banggi, Sulawesi # ''Drypetes microphylla'' – Nicobar Is, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines # ''Drypetes microphylloides'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes mildbraedii'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes minahassae'' – Java, Sulawesi # ''Drypetes moliwensis'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes molunduana'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes monachinoi'' – Bolívar (state), Bolívar # ''Drypetes monosperma'' – Luzon # ''Drypetes mossambicensis'' – SE Africa # ''Drypetes mucronata'' – Bahamas, Cuba # ''Drypetes nakaiana'' – Palau # ''Drypetes natalensis'' – E + S Africa # ''Drypetes neglecta'' – Indonesia # ''Drypetes nervosa'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes nitida'' – Palau # ''Drypetes obanensis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes oblongifolia'' – India, Sri Lanka # ''Drypetes obtusa'' – China, Vietnam # ''Drypetes occidentalis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes ochrodasya'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes ochrothrix'' – Thailand, Sabah # ''Drypetes oppositifolia'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes ovalis'' – Java, Philippines # ''Drypetes oxyodonta'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes pachycarpa'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes pacifica'' – Fiji # ''Drypetes parvifolia'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes paxii''- C Africa # ''Drypetes pellegrinii'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes peltophora'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes pendula'' – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo # ''Drypetes perakensis'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes perreticulata'' – S China, N Indochina # ''Drypetes perrieri'' – Comoros, Madagascar # ''Drypetes picardae'' – Hispaniola # ''Drypetes pierreana'' – Gabon, Congo # ''Drypetes poilanei'' – Vietnam # ''Drypetes polyalthioides'' – Kalimantan # ''Drypetes polyantha'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes polyneura'' – Bangka–Belitung Islands, Bangka, Sabah, Kalimantan # ''Drypetes porteri'' – Tamil Nadu # ''Drypetes preussii'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes principum'' – C + W Africa # ''Drypetes prunifera'' – Sabah # ''Drypetes reticulata'' – S + E Africa # ''Drypetes rhakodiskos'' – SE Asia # ''Drypetes riparia'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes riseleyi'' – Seychelles # ''Drypetes rotensis'' – Rota (island), Rota in Micronesia # ''Drypetes rubriflora'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes salicifolia'' – Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam # ''Drypetes sclerophylla'' – Kilwa in Tanzania # ''Drypetes sepiaria'' – India, Sri Lanka # ''Drypetes sessiliflora'' – S Brazil # ''Drypetes sherffii'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes sibuyanensis'' – insular SE Asia # ''Drypetes simalurensis'' – Sumatra, Simeulue Island, Simeuluë # ''Drypetes singroboensis'' – Ivory Coast # ''Drypetes spinosodentata'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes standleyi'' – C America, Venezuela, Ecuador # ''Drypetes staudtii'' – Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo # ''Drypetes stipulacea'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes stipularis'' – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea # ''Drypetes stylosa'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes subcrenata'' – Luzon # ''Drypetes subcubica'' – Java, Bali, New Guinea, Queensland # ''Drypetes subsessilis'' – E Himalayas, N Thailand, N Myanmar, Andaman Is # ''Drypetes subsymmetrica'' – Simeuluë # ''Drypetes sumatrana'' – Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Nicobar Is, Flores # ''Drypetes talamauensis'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes taylorii'' – Kenya # ''Drypetes tessmanniana'' – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea # ''Drypetes thorelii'' – Cambodia, Vietnam # ''Drypetes thouarsiana'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes thouarsii'' – Madagascar # †''Drypetes tomentella'' – SE Asia but extinct # ''Drypetes ugandensis'' C + E Africa # ''Drypetes usambarica'' – Kenya, Tanzania # ''Drypetes variabilis'' N South America # ''Drypetes venusta'' – S India # ''Drypetes vernicosa'' – Queensland # ''Drypetes verrucosa'' – Gabon # ''Drypetes vilhenae'' – Angola # ''Drypetes viridis'' – Thailand, Malaysia # ''Drypetes vitiensis'' – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga # ''Drypetes wightii'' – S India # ''Drypetes xanthophylloides'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes yapensis'' – Yap in Micronesia


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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2841094 Drypetes, Malpighiales genera Taxa named by Martin Vahl Pantropical flora Dioecious plants