''Zuckertia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

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

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Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1858. It contains only one known species, ''Zuckertia cordata'', native to southern

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

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. ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Medeiros, D., de Senna Valle, L. & Valka Alves, J.V. (2013). Revalidation of the genera ''Bia'' and ''Zuckertia'' (Euphorbiaceae) with ''B. capivarensis'' sp. nov. from Serra da Capivara, Brazil. Nordic Journal of Botany 31: 595-602.

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Monotypic Euphorbiaceae genera Plukenetieae Flora of Southern Mexico Flora of Central America Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon {{Euphorbiaceae-stub