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Euphorbiaceae
Triadica

not marked as a favorite taxon *Triadica Loureiro. Common name: Chinese Tallow-tree.

A genus of 3 species, native to tropical and subtropical Asia. The most recent monographers of Sapium and related genera (Kruijt 1996; Esser 2002) place our naturalized species in the genus Triadica, native to Asia; Sapium (excluding Triadica) is a genus of 21 species restricted to the neotropics. This conclusion is corroborated by molecular phylogenetic analysis (Wurdack, Hoffmann, & Chase 2005).

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ID notes: With Euphorbia and Cnidoscolus, one of our few Euphorbiaceous genera with milky sap.

References: Buthod, Hoagland, & Arbour (2019); DeBerry & Hunter (2018); Esser (2002); Govaerts, Frodin, & Radcliffe-Smith (2000); Kruijt (1996); Vogt et al. (2021); Webster (2014) In Kubitzki (2014); Wurdack (2016a) In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2016). Show full citations.

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image #1 of Triadica© Keith Bradley | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Triadica© J.W. Hardin | Triadica sebifera | Original Image ⭷

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