| Milktrees | |
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| Sapium glandulosum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Euphorbioideae |
| Tribe: | Hippomaneae |
| Subtribe: | Hippomaninae |
| Genus: | Sapium Jacq. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Sapium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae.[2][3] It is widespread across most of Latin America and the West Indies.[1][4] Many Old World species were formerly included in the genus, but recent authors have redistributed all the Old World species into other genera.[5]
Species are known commonly as milktrees.[6]
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Jacquin, Nicolaus Joseph von. 1790. Enumeratio Systematica Plantarum, quas in insulis Caribaeis 9, 31 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Sapium Jacq.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kruijt, R. C. (1996). A taxonomic monograph of Sapium Jacq., Anomostachys (Baill.) Hurus., Duvigneaudia J. Léonard and Sclerocroton Hochst. (Euphorbiaceae tribe Hippomaneae). Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Biblioth. Bot. 146, 1-109.
- ^ Sapium. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).