''Tannodia'' 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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Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1861. It is native to

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Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

, and

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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 # '' Tannodia congolensis'' - Zaïre # '' Tannodia cordifolia'' -

# '' Tannodia grandiflora'' -

Diana Region Diana is a region in Madagascar at the northeast part of the island. It borders the regions of Sava to the southeast and Sofia to the southwest. It covers an area of 19,266 km2, and had a population of 889,736 in 2018. The regional capital i ...

in Madagascar # '' Tannodia nitida'' - Atsinanana in Madagascar # '' Tannodia obovata'' - Atsinanana in Madagascar # '' Tannodia pennivenia'' - Atsinanana in Madagascar # '' Tannodia perrieri'' - Madagascar # '' Tannodia swynnertonii'' - Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe # '' Tannodia tenuifolia'' - Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia

References

Aleuritideae Euphorbiaceae genera Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon Dioecious plants {{Euphorbiaceae-stub