''Stachyandra'' 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 1990.Radcliffe-Smith, Alan. 1990. Notes on Madagascan Euphorbiaceae, III. ''Stachyandra''. Kew Bulletin 45(3): 561–568 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 ...

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 # '' Stachyandra imberbis'' (Airy Shaw) Radcl.-Sm. # '' Stachyandra merana'' (Airy Shaw) J.-F.Leroy ex Radcl.-Sm. # '' Stachyandra rufibarbis'' (Airy Shaw) Radcl.-Sm. # '' Stachyandra viticifolia'' (Airy Shaw) Radcl.-Sm.

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Picrodendraceae Malpighiales genera Endemic flora of Madagascar {{Malpighiales-stub

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