Euphorbiaceae

=Family description=
 * Trees, shrubs, herbs or seldom lianas**, often with (white) latex.
 * Leaves** simple or rarely compound, usually alternate, often with glands on petiole or lamina; margin entire to serrate; indument of stellate or lepidote hairs, occasionally stinging hairs or glands or glandular hairs. Stipules usually present.
 * Inflorescences** very variable; cymose corymbs, heads, thyrses, racemes, axillary fascicles, or sometimes very compact cymose units in compound inflorescences.
 * Flowers** usually small, generally unisexual. Sepals 0--10, free or connate. Petals 0--13, mostly free, often lacking. Disc often present. Staminate flowers: stamens 1 to many. Pistillate flowers: ovary superior, generally 3-locular, styles absent to present; stigmas free or basally connate, often 2-lobed.
 * Fruit** usually a dry capsule, splitting, often explosively, into 3 or 6 cocci, rarely fruit a fleshy berry or drupe.

=General info=
 * Distribution** About 330 genera with about 7750 spp., widespread in (sub)tropical to temporate regions of the world.
 * Ecology** Any habitat type. Contains some of the most common pioneer trees in tropical Asia (//Macaranga//), but also trees that are adapted to dark forest understoreys and closed forest canopies.
 * Uses** Timber; Rubber (//Hevea brasiliensis//); Food like cassave (//Manihot esculenta//); Oils (//Ricinus communis, Aleurites moluccana//); Fruits and spices (//Baccaurea// spp., //Phyllanthus// spp.); Vegetables (//Claoxylon// spp., //Sauropus// spp.); Ornamentals.
 * Similar to** May be most easily confused with Salicaceae (former Flacourtiaceae), but can be distinguished by the usually more than 1-locular ovary with a single placenta per locule (Salicaceae unilocular with (2)--3--5(--8) placentas).
 * Remark** The family as classically known has been shown to consist of 5 separate families of which we treat the 3 most common.


 * =Euphorbiaceae= || =Phyllanthaceae= || =Putranjivaceae= ||
 * ==Treated genera== || ==Treated genera== || ==Treated genera== ||
 * * Alchornea
 * Croton
 * Macaranga
 * Mallotus
 * Trigonostemon || * Antidesma
 * Aporosa
 * Baccaurea
 * Cleistanthus
 * Glochidion || * Drypetes ||

Alchornea tiliifolia

Croton argyratus

Macaranga indica

Mallotus barbatus

Trigonostemon villosus

Antidesma coriaceum

Aporosa nitida

Baccaurea dulcis

Cleistanthus myrianthus

Glochidion sericeum

Phyllanthus embelica

Drypetes longifolia