''Daphniphyllum'' is the sole genus in the flowering plant family Daphniphyllaceae and was described as a genus in 1826.Tropicos, ''Daphniphyllum'' Blume
/ref> The genus includes evergreen shrubs and trees mainly native to east and southeast Asia, but also found in the Indian Subcontinent and New Guinea.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> All species in the family are

dioecious Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproductio ...

, that is male and female flowers are borne on different plants. In older classifications the genus was treated in the family Euphorbiaceae. ''Daphniphyllum'' species are eaten by the larvae of some

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

species including the engrailed (''Ectropis'' sp.). ;Accepted species ; Synonyms * ''Daphniphyllum humile'' Maxim. ex Franch. &

Sav. Paul Amedée Ludovic Savatier (19 October 1830 – 27 August 1891) was a French naval doctor and botanist. Savatier was born on the Atlantic island of Oléron, off La Rochelle and Rochefort, in 1830. He studied medicine at the Naval Medical Scho ...

('' Daphniphyllum macropodum'')

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Bibliography

* * Ohwi, J. ''Flora of Japan'', 1984. * ''Woody Plants of Japan'', Vol. 2, 2000. * * Saxifragales genera Dioecious plants {{Saxifragales-stub