''Neoscortechinia'' is a

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of the

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Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1897. It is native to

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and

Papuasia Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia. It comprises the f ...

.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. ;Species # '' Neoscortechinia angustifolia'' (Airy Shaw) Welzen - Sabah, Kalimantan # '' Neoscortechinia forbesii'' (Hook.f.) S.Moore - New Guinea, Admiralty Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands # '' Neoscortechinia kingii'' (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo # '' Neoscortechinia nicobarica'' (Hook.f.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Nicobar Islands, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, W New Guinea # '' Neoscortechinia philippinensis'' (Merr.) Welzen - Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines # '' Neoscortechinia sumatrensis'' S.Moore - W Malaysia, N. Sumatra, Simeuluë, Borneo

References

Euphorbiaceae genera Acalyphoideae {{Euphorbiaceae-stub