Cephalocroton is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1841.Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1841. Flora oder Botanische Zeitung :welche Recensionen, Abhandlungen, Aufsätze, Neuigkeiten und Nachrichten, die Botanik betreffend, enthält 24: 370 in LatinTropicos, genus Cephalocroton It is native to central, eastern, and southern Africa from Nigeria and Ethiopia south to KwaZulu-Natal.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGovaerts, 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.
Use The dead wood of some species can be used as a fumigant.
Species Cephalocroton cordofanus Hochst. - Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania Cephalocroton incanus M.G.Gilbert - Nigeria, Ethiopia Cephalocroton mollis Klotzsch - Tanzania, Mozambuque, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga Cephalocroton polygynus Pax & K.Hoffm. - Somalia formerly included moved to other genera (Adenochlaena Cephalocrotonopsis Cladogynos Epiprinus Sumbaviopsis )
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