''Garciadelia'' is a

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclud ...

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of the

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Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 2010. The entire genus is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the Island of

Hispaniola Hispaniola (, also ; es, La Española; Latin and french: Hispaniola; ht, Ispayola; tnq, Ayiti or Quisqueya) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Hispaniola is the most populous island in the West Indies, and th ...

in the

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

(divided between

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

and the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> It is a member of the ''Leucocroton'' alliance, which also includes '' Leucocroton'' and '' Lasiocroton''. Species in this alliance 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 ...

. ;Species # '' Garciadelia abbottii'' Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Dominican Republic # '' Garciadelia castilloae'' Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Dominican Republic # ''

Garciadelia leprosa ''Garciadelia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 2010. The entire genus is endemic to the Island of Hispaniola in the West Indies (divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is a member of the ...

'' (Willd.) Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Haiti, Dominican Republic # ''

Garciadelia mejiae ''Garciadelia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 2010. The entire genus is endemic to the Island of Hispaniola in the West Indies (divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is a member of the ...

'' Jestrow & Jiménez Rodr. - Dominican Republic

References

Adelieae Flora of Haiti Flora of the Dominican Republic Euphorbiaceae genera Dioecious plants {{Euphorbiaceae-stub