''Cephalocrotonopsis'' is a
genus of
plant of the
family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1910. It contains only one known species, ''Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus'', endemic to the
Socotra Islands in the
Indian Ocean, part of the
Republic of Yemen
Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and sha ...
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[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.]
The species is listed as vulnerable.
References
Epiprineae
Endemic flora of Socotra
Monotypic Euphorbiaceae genera
Vulnerable plants
Taxa named by Isaac Bayley Balfour
Taxa named by Ferdinand Albin Pax
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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