Sclerocroton Oblongifolius

''Sclerocroton'' 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 1845. There a total of 6 known species in this genus; 5 species in continental

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and a single species in

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

.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 # '' Sclerocroton carterianus'' (J.Léonard) Kruijt & Roebers - Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone # '' Sclerocroton cornutus'' (Pax) Kruijt & Roebers - C + SC Africa from Cameroon to Zimbabwe plus Ivory Coast # ''

Sclerocroton integerrimus ''Sclerocroton integerrimus'', the duiker berry, is a tree in the family ''Euphorbiaceae''. It is from Southern Africa. Taxonomy This species was originally named as two species; ''Sclerocroton integerrimus'' Hochst. (1845) and ''S. reticulat ...

'' Hochst. - C + S Africa from Zaire to KawZulu-Natal, plus Guinea # '' Sclerocroton melanostictus'' (Baill.) Kruijt & Roebers - Madagascar # '' Sclerocroton oblongifolius'' (Müll.Arg.) Kruijt & Roebers - Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe # '' Sclerocroton schmitzii'' (J.Léonard) Kruijt & Roebers - Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ;Formerly included moved to ''

Shirakiopsis ''Shirakiopsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1999. There are six known species, 3 native to tropical Asia and 3 to tropical Africa.Shirakiopsis elliptica ''Shirakiopsis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1999. There are six known species, 3 native to tropical Asia and 3 to tropical Africa.Hippomaneae Euphorbiaceae genera Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter {{Euphorbiaceae-stub