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Euphorbiaceae
Sapium

not marked as a favorite taxon *Sapium Jacquin. Common name: Milktree.

A genus of about 25 species, trees and shrubs, of the Neotropics. The most recent monographers of Sapium and related genera (Kruijt 1996; Esser 2002) separate Triadica from Sapium sensu stricto. This conclusion is corroborated by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Wurdack, Hoffmann, & Chase 2005).

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References: Govaerts, Frodin, & Radcliffe-Smith (2000); Kruijt (1996); Webster (2014) In Kubitzki (2014). Show full citations.

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