''Garciadelia'' is a

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

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

first described as a genus in 2010. The entire genus is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to the Island of

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ) is an island between Geography of Cuba, Cuba and Geography of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and the second-largest by List of C ...

in the

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(divided between

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

and the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> It is a member of the ''Leucocroton'' alliance, which also includes ''

Leucocroton ''Leucocroton'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1861. The entire genus is endemic to Cuba. It is a member of the ''Leucocroton'' alliance, which also includes '' Garciadelia'' and '' Lasiocroton''. Speci ...

'' and '' Lasiocroton''. Species in this alliance are

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 ...

. ;Species # '' Garciadelia abbottii'' Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Dominican Republic # '' Garciadelia castilloae'' Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Dominican Republic # '' Garciadelia leprosa'' (Willd.) Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Haiti, Dominican Republic # '' Garciadelia mejiae'' Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Dominican Republic

References

Adelieae Flora of Haiti Flora of the Dominican Republic Euphorbiaceae genera Dioecious plants {{Euphorbiaceae-stub