''Tragiella'' is a
genus
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of
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 ...
of the
family
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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, e ...
first described as a genus in 1919.
Tropicos, Tragiella Pax & K. Hoffm.
/ref> It is native to Africa
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.[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
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;Species[
# '']Tragiella anomala
''Tragiella'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1919. It is native to Africa.
;Species
# '' Tragiella anomala'' (Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
# '' Tragiella frieseana'' (Prain) Pax ...
'' (Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
# ''Tragiella frieseana
''Tragiella'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1919. It is native to Africa.
;Species
# ''Tragiella anomala'' (Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
# '' Tragiella frieseana'' (Prain) Pax & ...
'' (Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Zambia
# ''Tragiella natalensis
''Tragiella'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1919. It is native to Africa.
;Species
# '' Tragiella anomala'' (Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
# '' Tragiella frieseana'' (Prain) Pax ...
'' (Sond.) Pax & K.Hoffm. - South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
, Limpopo
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, Mpumalanga
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# ''Tragiella pyxostigma
''Tragiella'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1919. It is native to Africa.
;Species
# ''Tragiella anomala'' (Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm. - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
# ''Tragiella frieseana'' (Prain) Pax & ...
'' Radcl.-Sm. - Tanzania
;formerly included[
moved to '']Dalechampia
''Dalechampia'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monogeneric subtribe Dalechampiinae. It is widespread across lowland tropical areas (generally below 2,000 m ASL) primarily in the Americas with smaller numbers of species ...
''
*''Tragiella pavoniifolia'' Chiov. - ''Dalechampia pavoniifolia
''Dalechampia'' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae and of the monogeneric subtribe Dalechampiinae. It is widespread across lowland tropical areas (generally below 2,000 m ASL) primarily in the Americas with smaller numbers of specie ...
'' (Chiov.) M.G.Gilbert - Somalia
References
Euphorbiaceae genera
Plukenetieae
Flora of Africa
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