Microstachys is a genus of plants in the
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 Euphorbia, the type genus of the family. Most spurges, such as ''Euphorbia paralias'', ar ...
first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to tropical Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Papuasia, Mesoamerica, the West Indies, and South America.
[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[
;formerly included][
moved to other genera ''( Micrococca Sebastiania )''
* ''M. mercurialis - Micrococca mercurialis''
* ''M. ramosissima - Sebastiania brasiliensis''
]
References
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Euphorbiaceae genera
Hippomaneae