Caperonia

Caperonia (false croton) is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical America and Africa.

• # Caperonia aculeolata - S Brazil
 * Species

• # Caperonia altissima - Paraguay

• # Caperonia angustissima - Guyana

• # Caperonia bahiensis - E Brazil, Paraguay

• # Caperonia buettneriacea - S Brazil

• # Caperonia capiibariensis - Paraguay

• # Caperonia castaneifolia - widespread from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay + NE Argentina; naturalized in Florida, Alabama

• # Caperonia castrobarrosiana - Maranhão

• # Caperonia chiltepecensis - Veracruz, Oaxaca

• # Caperonia corchoroides - Guyana, Suriname

• # Caperonia cordata - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

• # Caperonia cubana - Cuba

• # Caperonia fistulosa - Africa from Mali to Somalia to Namibia

• # Caperonia gardneri - Brazil

• # Caperonia glabrata - Paraguay, Formosa

• # Caperonia heteropetala - S Brazil

• # Caperonia langsdorffii - São Paulo, Mato Grosso

• # Caperonia latifolia W + C Africa from Togo to Tanzania

• # Caperonia latior - Paraguay

• # Caperonia linearifolia - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Uruguay

• # Caperonia lutea - Guyana

• # Caperonia multicostata - E Brazil

• # Caperonia neglecta - Veracruz, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia

• # Caperonia palustris - widespread from SE + SC United States to Paraguay + N Argentina

• # Caperonia paraguayensis - Paraguay

• # Caperonia regnellii - Minas Gerais

• # Caperonia rutenbergii - Madagascar

• # Caperonia serrata - tropical Africa

• # Caperonia similis - Amazonas in NW Brazil

• # Caperonia stenophylla - Minas Gerais, 3 Guianas

• # Caperonia stuhlmannii - Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal

• # Caperonia subrotunda - Somalia

• # Caperonia vellozoana - Rio de Janeiro

• # Caperonia zaponzeta - Peru