{{Short description|Tribe of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Glycydendron.jpg | image_alt = Fruits of "Glycydendron" sp. | image_caption = Fruits of ''Glycydendron'' sp. |taxon = Adenoclineae |authority = G.L.Webster |subdivision_ranks = Genera |subdivision = Subtribe Adenoclininae<br> *''Adenocline'' *''Ditta'' *''Glycydendron'' *''Klaineanthus'' *''Tetrorchidium'' Subtribe Endosperminae<br> *''Endospermum'' }}
'''Adenoclineae''' is a tribe of the subfamily Crotonoideae, under the family Euphorbiaceae. It comprises 2 subtribes and 6 genera.<ref>{{cite web|last=Schoch |first=CL|title=NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools.| year=2020|work=National Institutes of Health|pages=baaa062 |doi=10.1093/database/baaa062 |pmid=32761142 |pmc=7408187|url= https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?lin=s&p=has_linkout&id=235884|access-date=November 2, 2024}}</ref>
The tribe has been described for over 100 years, since at least 1913.<ref>{{cite journal|title= The Mercurialineae and Adenoclineae of South Africa |first=D. |last=Prain|journal=Annals of Botany|volume=27|issue=3|date=1 July 1913|pages=371–410|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a089467 |url=https://academic.oup.com/aob/article-abstract/os-27/3/371/158709?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2 November 2024|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
This clade evolved possibly in India during the Cretaceous.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Biogeographic and evolutionary history of Crotonoideae based on pollen evidence from Indian Late Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments|last1=Bansal|first1=Mahi|last2=Mishra|first2=Shreya |last3=Prasad |first3=Vandana|journal=Biotropica|volume=54|issue=6|pages=1331–1348|date=1 November 2022 |doi=10.1111/btp.13091 |bibcode=2022Biotr..54.1331B |url= https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022Biotr..54.1331B/abstract |access-date=2 November 2024}}</ref>
==See also== * Taxonomy of the Euphorbiaceae
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Category:Adenoclineae Category:Euphorbiaceae tribes
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