Chaetocarpus is a genus of plants in the family Peraceae, formerly Euphorbiaceae, erected as a genus in 1854.Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1854. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 300-301, pl. 10a description in Latin, habitat info and commentary in EnglishTropicos, genus Chaetocarpus Species of the genus Chaetocarpus grow as trees or shrubs. They are native to the Americas, Africa,Breteler, F. J. (2002). Novitates Gabonenses 46. A new Chaetocarpus (Euphorbiaceae) from Gabon. Adansonia 24(2) 221-27. and Asia.Chaetocarpus. Flora of China.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Some species are endangered.World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Chaetocarpus pubescens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
Species Chaetocarpus acutifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi – Sierra de Moa in Cuba Chaetocarpus africanus Pax – C Africa Chaetocarpus castanocarpus (Roxb.) Thwaites – SE Asia, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Chaetocarpus cordifolius (Urb.) Borhidi – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica Chaetocarpus coriaceus Thwaites – Sri Lanka Chaetocarpus cubensis Fawc. & Rendle – Cuba Chaetocarpus echinocarpus (Baill.) Ducke – Bolivia, Brazil Chaetocarpus ferrugineus Philcox – Sri Lanka Chaetocarpus gabonensis Breteler – Gabon Chaetocarpus globosus (Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle – Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep. Chaetocarpus myrsinites Baill. – Bolivia, Brazil Chaetocarpus parvifolius Borhidi – Cuba Chaetocarpus pearcei Rusby – Bolivia Chaetocarpus pubescens (Thwaites) Hook.f. – Sri Lanka Chaetocarpus rabaraba Capuron – Madagascar Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus (Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm. – Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil
member of homonymic genus, synonym of Pouteria Chaetocarpus pouteria J.F.Gmel, synonym of Pouteria guianensis Aubl. (Sapotaceae)
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