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''Drypetes'' 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 exclu ...
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of the
family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...
Putranjivaceae Putranjivaceae is a rosid family that is composed of 218 species in 2 genera of evergreen tropical trees that are found mainly in the Old World tropics, but with a few species in tropical America. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriace ...
, in the order
Malpighiales The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 36 families and more than species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsett ...
. It was previously in the family
Euphorbiaceae Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants. In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, which is also the name of a genus in the family. Most spurges, such as '' Euphorbia paralias'', are herbs, but some, ...
, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole
pantropical A pantropical ("all tropics") distribution is one which covers tropical regions of both hemispheres. Examples of species include caecilians, modern sirenians and the plant genera ''Acacia'' and ''Bacopa''. ''Neotropical'' is a zoogeographic term ...
zoochorous In Spermatophyte plants, seed dispersal is the movement, spread or transport of seeds away from the parent plant. Plants have limited mobility and rely upon a variety of dispersal vectors to transport their seeds, including both abiotic vectors, ...
genus of the family. The genus comprises about 200
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
, found in
Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
, southern
Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...
, Australia,
Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States to the north, Colombia to the south, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. ...
, the Caribbean, southern
Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
,
Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, and various oceanic islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Famiiles
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Putranjiva ''Putranjiva'' is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, first described as a genus in 1826. It is native to Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Japan, southern China, and New Guinea. Along with ''Drypetes'' (of the same family), it c ...
'', also in the
Putranjivaceae Putranjivaceae is a rosid family that is composed of 218 species in 2 genera of evergreen tropical trees that are found mainly in the Old World tropics, but with a few species in tropical America. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriace ...
, ''Drypetes'' contains the only plants outside the
Brassicales The Brassicales (or Cruciales) are an order of flowering plants, belonging to the eurosids II group of dicotyledons under the APG II system. One character common to many members of the order is the production of glucosinolate (mustard oil) compo ...
known to contain mustard oils.


Species

The Kew ''World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP)'' lists: # ''
Drypetes acuminata ''Drypetes'' is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, in the order Malpighiales. It was previously in the family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family. The genus comprises about 200 ...
'' – Queensland # '' Drypetes aetoxyloides'' – Sabah # '' Drypetes aframensis'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes afzelii'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes alba'' – West Indies # '' Drypetes amazonica'' – Ecuador, NW Brazil # '' Drypetes ambigua'' – Madagascar # '' Drypetes andamanica'' – Myanmar, Andaman Is # '' Drypetes angustifolia'' – Central Africa # '' Drypetes arcuatinervia'' – China, Vietnam # ''
Drypetes arguta ''Drypetes arguta'', commonly known as the water ironplum, is a species of small tree or large bush in the family Putranjivaceae. It is native to tropical East Africa. It was first described in 1920 by the English botanist John Hutchinson, who n ...
'' – E + S Africa # '' Drypetes assamica'' – E Himalayas, N Indochina # '' Drypetes aubrevillei'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes australis'' – KwaZulu-Natal # '' Drypetes aylmeri'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes bakembei'' – Central African Republic # '' Drypetes balakrishnanii'' – Bangladesh, Myanmar # '' Drypetes bathiei'' – Madagascar # '' Drypetes bawanii'' – Philippines # '' Drypetes bhattacharyae'' – Andaman & Nicobar # '' Drypetes bipindensis'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes bisacuta'' – Laos # '' Drypetes brownii'' – S Mexico, C America # '' Drypetes caesia'' – Sabah, Kalimantan # '' Drypetes calvescens'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes calyptosepala'' – Sumatra # '' Drypetes cambodica'' – Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar # '' Drypetes capillipes'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes capuronii'' – Madagascar # '' Drypetes carolinensis'' –
Yap Yap ( yap, Waqaab) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State. The name "Yap" in recent years has come to also refer to the state within the Federated States of Micr ...
# '' Drypetes castilloi'' – Sabah # '' Drypetes caustica'' – Réunion # '' Drypetes celastrinea'' – Cameroon # '' Drypetes celebica'' – Sulawesi, W New Guinea # '' Drypetes chevalieri'' – W + C Africa # '' Drypetes cinnabarina'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes cockburnii'' – Malaysia # '' Drypetes comorensis'' –
Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loca ...
# '' Drypetes confertiflora'' –
Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a state in the southwestern region of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reorganisation Act. Originally known as Mysore State , it was renamed ''Karnat ...
# '' Drypetes congestiflora'' – China, Philippines # '' Drypetes convoluta'' –
Luzon Luzon (; ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as ...
# '' Drypetes crassipes'' – Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia # '' Drypetes cumingii'' – China, Philippines # '' Drypetes curtisii'' – S Indochina, Borneo # '' Drypetes darcyana'' –
Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loca ...
# '' Drypetes darimontiana'' –
Zaïre Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...
# '' Drypetes dasycarpa'' – Thailand # '' Drypetes dasyneura'' – Sumatra # ''
Drypetes deplanchei ''Drypetes deplanchei'' is a tree of eastern and northern Australia. It also occurs in New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. The genus is derived from the Greek, ''dryppa'' meaning "olive fruit". The species named after Dr. Emile Deplanche, who c ...
'' – New Guinea, Australia,
Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...
, New Caledonia # '' Drypetes detersibilis'' – Malaysia # '' Drypetes dewildei'' – Sumatra # '' Drypetes dinklagei'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes diopa'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes diversifolia'' – Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hispaniola # '' Drypetes dolichocarpa'' – Saipan # '' Drypetes dussii'' –
Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...
# '' Drypetes eglandulosa'' – Bangladesh,
Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
, Myanmar # '' Drypetes ellipsoidea'' –
Leyte Leyte ( ) is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines. It is eighth-largest and sixth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 2,626,970 as of 2020 census. Since the accessibility of land has be ...
# †'' Drypetes elliptica'' – either
Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
or Andaman Islands but extinct # '' Drypetes ellisii'' – Andaman Islands # '' Drypetes eriocarpa'' – Sarawak # '' Drypetes euryodes'' – Gabon, Angola # '' Drypetes falcata'' –
Camiguin Camiguin, officially the Province of Camiguin ( ceb, Probinsya sa Camiguin; tl, Lalawigan ng Camiguin; Kamigin: ''Probinsya ta Kamigin''), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about off the northern coast of Mi ...
# '' Drypetes fallax'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes fanshawei'' – Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador # '' Drypetes fernandopoana'' –
Bioko Bioko (; historically Fernando Po; bvb, Ëtulá Ëria) is an island off the west coast of Africa and the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea. Its population was 335,048 at the 2015 census and it covers an area of . The island is located of ...
# '' Drypetes floribunda'' – W Africa # '' Drypetes forbesii'' – Sumatra # '' Drypetes fusiformis'' – Sabah, Kalimantan # '' Drypetes gabonensis'' – Gabon, Congo # '' Drypetes gardneri'' – India, Sri Lanka # '' Drypetes gentryi'' – Mexico # '' Drypetes gerrardii'' – E + S Africa # '' Drypetes gerrardinoides'' – Tanzania # '' Drypetes gilgiana'' – W + C Africa # '' Drypetes gitingensis'' –
Sibuyan Sibuyan is a crescent-shaped island, the second largest in an archipelago comprising Romblon Province, Philippines. Located in the namesake Sibuyan Sea, it has an area of and has a total population of 62,815 as of 2020 census. The island has t ...
# '' Drypetes glaberrima'' – W New Guinea # '' Drypetes glabra'' – Rolas I.,
São Tomé São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for " Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, it is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities. History Álvar ...
# '' Drypetes glabridiscus'' – Sulawesi # '' Drypetes glauca'' – West Indies # '' Drypetes globosa'' – Philippines # '' Drypetes gossweileri'' – C Africa # '' Drypetes gracilis'' – Cameroon # '' Drypetes grandifolia'' – Philippines # '' Drypetes guatemalensis'' – Guatemala # '' Drypetes hainanensis'' –
Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...
, Thailand, Vietnam, Sabah, Sulawesi # ''Drypetes harmandii'' – Laos, Thailand # ''Drypetes helferi'' – Myanmar, Thailand # ''Drypetes henriquesii'' –
São Tomé São Tomé is the capital and largest city of the Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe. Its name is Portuguese for " Saint Thomas". Founded in the 15th century, it is one of Africa's oldest colonial cities. History Álvar ...
# ''Drypetes heptandra'' – Philippines # ''Drypetes hoaensis'' – Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam # ''Drypetes iliae'' – Sabah, Sarawak # ''Drypetes ilicifolia'' – Jamaica, Dominican Rep, Puerto Rico # ''Drypetes impressinervis'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes inaequalis'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes indica'' – S China, E Himalayas, N Indochina # ''Drypetes integerrima'' – Ogasawara-shoto, Kazan-retto # ''Drypetes integrifolia'' – S China # ''Drypetes iodoformis'' – Queensland # ''Drypetes ituriensis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes ivorensis'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes jaintensis'' – Meghalaya # ''Drypetes kalamii'' – West Bengal,India # ''Drypetes kikir'' – Malaysia, Borneo # ''Drypetes klainei'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes kwangtungensis'' – Guangdong # ''Drypetes laciniata'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes laevis'' – Sumatra, Borneo # ''Drypetes lasiogynoides'' – New Guinea # ''Drypetes lateriflora'' – West Indies, Mexico, C America, Florida # ''Drypetes leiocarpa'' – Nicobar Islands # ''Drypetes leonensis'' – W + C Africa # ''Drypetes littoralis'' – Taiwan, Java, Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines # ''Drypetes longifolia'' – SE Asia, New Guinea # ''Drypetes longistipitata'' –
Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...
# ''Drypetes macrostigma'' – Kalimantan # ''Drypetes madagascariensis'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes magnistipula'' – Gabon, Cameroon # ''Drypetes malabarica'' – Tamil Nadu # ''Drypetes maquilingensis'' – Philippines, Banggi, Sulawesi # ''Drypetes microphylla'' – Nicobar Is, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines # ''Drypetes microphylloides'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes mildbraedii'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes minahassae'' – Java, Sulawesi # ''Drypetes moliwensis'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes molunduana'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes monachinoi'' – Bolívar (state), Bolívar # ''Drypetes monosperma'' –
Luzon Luzon (; ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as ...
# ''Drypetes mossambicensis'' – SE Africa # ''Drypetes mucronata'' – Bahamas, Cuba # ''Drypetes nakaiana'' – Palau # ''Drypetes natalensis'' – E + S Africa # ''Drypetes neglecta'' – Indonesia # ''Drypetes nervosa'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes nitida'' – Palau # ''Drypetes obanensis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes oblongifolia'' – India, Sri Lanka # ''Drypetes obtusa'' – China, Vietnam # ''Drypetes occidentalis'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes ochrodasya'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes ochrothrix'' – Thailand, Sabah # ''Drypetes oppositifolia'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes ovalis'' – Java, Philippines # ''Drypetes oxyodonta'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes pachycarpa'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes pacifica'' – Fiji # ''Drypetes parvifolia'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes paxii''- C Africa # ''Drypetes pellegrinii'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes peltophora'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes pendula'' – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo # ''Drypetes perakensis'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes perreticulata'' – S China, N Indochina # ''Drypetes perrieri'' – Comoros, Madagascar # ''Drypetes picardae'' – Hispaniola # ''Drypetes pierreana'' – Gabon, Congo # ''Drypetes poilanei'' – Vietnam # ''Drypetes polyalthioides'' – Kalimantan # ''Drypetes polyantha'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes polyneura'' – Bangka–Belitung Islands, Bangka, Sabah, Kalimantan # ''Drypetes porteri'' – Tamil Nadu # ''Drypetes preussii'' – W Africa # ''Drypetes principum'' – C + W Africa # ''Drypetes prunifera'' – Sabah # ''Drypetes reticulata'' – S + E Africa # ''Drypetes rhakodiskos'' – SE Asia # ''Drypetes riparia'' – Malaysia # ''Drypetes riseleyi'' – Seychelles # ''Drypetes rotensis'' – Rota (island), Rota in Micronesia # ''Drypetes rubriflora'' – Cameroon # ''Drypetes salicifolia'' – Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam # ''Drypetes sclerophylla'' – Kilwa in Tanzania # ''Drypetes sepiaria'' – India, Sri Lanka # ''Drypetes sessiliflora'' – S Brazil # ''Drypetes sherffii'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes sibuyanensis'' – insular SE Asia # ''Drypetes simalurensis'' – Sumatra, Simeulue Island, Simeuluë # ''Drypetes singroboensis'' – Ivory Coast # ''Drypetes spinosodentata'' – C Africa # ''Drypetes standleyi'' – C America, Venezuela, Ecuador # ''Drypetes staudtii'' – Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo # ''Drypetes stipulacea'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes stipularis'' – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea # ''Drypetes stylosa'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes subcrenata'' – Luzon # ''Drypetes subcubica'' – Java, Bali, New Guinea, Queensland # ''Drypetes subsessilis'' – E Himalayas, N Thailand, N Myanmar, Andaman Is # ''Drypetes subsymmetrica'' – Simeuluë # ''Drypetes sumatrana'' – Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Nicobar Is, Flores # ''Drypetes talamauensis'' – Sumatra # ''Drypetes taylorii'' – Kenya # ''Drypetes tessmanniana'' – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea # ''Drypetes thorelii'' – Cambodia, Vietnam # ''Drypetes thouarsiana'' – Madagascar # ''Drypetes thouarsii'' – Madagascar # †''Drypetes tomentella'' – SE Asia but extinct # ''Drypetes ugandensis'' C + E Africa # ''Drypetes usambarica'' – Kenya, Tanzania # ''Drypetes variabilis'' N South America # ''Drypetes venusta'' – S India # ''Drypetes vernicosa'' – Queensland # ''Drypetes verrucosa'' – Gabon # ''Drypetes vilhenae'' – Angola # ''Drypetes viridis'' – Thailand, Malaysia # ''Drypetes vitiensis'' – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga # ''Drypetes wightii'' – S India # ''Drypetes xanthophylloides'' – Sarawak # ''Drypetes yapensis'' –
Yap Yap ( yap, Waqaab) traditionally refers to an island group located in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, a part of Yap State. The name "Yap" in recent years has come to also refer to the state within the Federated States of Micr ...
in Micronesia


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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2841094 Drypetes, Malpighiales genera Taxa named by Martin Vahl Pantropical flora Dioecious plants