| Chaetocarpus | |
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| Chaetocarpus echinocarpus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Peraceae |
| Genus: | Chaetocarpus Thwaites 1854, conserved name, not Schreb. 1789 (Sapotaceae) |
| Type species | |
| Chaetocarpus pungens | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Chaetocarpus is a plant genus of the family Peraceae, formerly Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1854.[2][3] Chaetocarpus species are trees or shrubs. They are native to the Americas, Africa,[4] and Asia.[5][1] Some species are endangered.[6]
- Species[1]
- Chaetocarpus acutifolius (Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi – Sierra de Moa in Cuba
- Chaetocarpus africanus Pax – C Africa
- Chaetocarpus castanocarpus (Roxb.) Thwaites – SE Asia, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
- Chaetocarpus cordifolius (Urb.) Borhidi – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica
- Chaetocarpus coriaceus Thwaites – Sri Lanka
- Chaetocarpus cubensis Fawc. & Rendle – Cuba
- Chaetocarpus echinocarpus (Baill.) Ducke – Bolivia, Brazil
- Chaetocarpus ferrugineus Philcox – Sri Lanka
- Chaetocarpus gabonensis Breteler – Gabon
- Chaetocarpus globosus (Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle – Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep.
- Chaetocarpus myrsinites Baill. – Bolivia, Brazil
- Chaetocarpus parvifolius Borhidi – Cuba
- Chaetocarpus pearcei Rusby – Bolivia
- Chaetocarpus pubescens (Thwaites) Hook.f. – Sri Lanka
- Chaetocarpus rabaraba Capuron – Madagascar
- Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus (Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm. – Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil
- member of homonymic genus, synonym of Pouteria
Chaetocarpus pouteria J.F.Gmel, synonym of Pouteria guianensis Aubl. (Sapotaceae)
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1854. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 6: 300-301, pl. 10a description in Latin, habitat info and commentary in English
- ^ Tropicos, genus Chaetocarpus
- ^ Breteler, F. J. (2002). Novitates Gabonenses 46. A new Chaetocarpus (Euphorbiaceae) from Gabon. Archived 22 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine Adansonia 24(2) 221-27.
- ^ Chaetocarpus. Flora of China.
- ^ World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Chaetocarpus pubescens. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Retrieved 8 May 2013.