Euphorbia ''Euphorbia'' is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to t ...

'' is a highly diverse

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 excl ...

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 ...

, comprising some 5,000 currently accepted taxa.Tropicos - Name Search
/ref> This is an alphabetical list of the ''Euphorbia'' species and notable infraspecific

taxa In biology, a taxon (back-formation from ''taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular nam ...

. The list includes the former (and never generally accepted) genus ''Chamaesyce'', as well as the related genera ''Elaeophorbia'', ''Endadenium'', ''Monadenium'', ''Synadenium'' and ''Pedilanthus'' which according to recent

DNA sequence DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleic acid sequence – the order of nucleotides in DNA. It includes any method or technology that is used to determine the order of the four bases: adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. T ...

-based

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups ...

studies are all nested within ''Euphorbia''Steinmann & Porter (2002), Steinmann (2003), Bruyns ''et al.'' (2006) Noticeably

succulent plant In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions. The word ''succulent'' comes from the Latin word ''sucus'', me ...

s are marked by (s).

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G–O

P–Z

Notes

References

* (2006): ''A new subgeneric classification for ''Euphorbia'' (Euphorbiaceae) in southern Africa based on ITS and psbA-trnH sequence data''. ''

Taxon In biology, a taxon ( back-formation from '' taxonomy''; plural taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit. Although neither is required, a taxon is usually known by a particular n ...

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* & al. (2010). World Checklist of Malpighiales. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden
Euphorbia L., Sp. Pl.: 450 (1753)
* (2003): The submersion of ''Pedilanthus'' into ''Euphorbia'' (Euphorbiaceae). ''Acta Botanica Mexicana'' 65: 45-50
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nglish with Spanish abstract* (2002): ''Phylogenetic relationships in Euphorbieae (Euphorbiaceae) based on ITS and ndhF sequence data''. ''Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden'' 89(4): 453–490. (HTML abstract, first page image)

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