{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Cephalocroton |authority = Hochst. |type_species = ''Cephalocroton cordofanus'' |type_species_authority = Hochst. }}
'''''Cephalocroton''''' is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1841.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/777055#page/372/mode/1up Hochstetter, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich. 1841. Flora oder Botanische Zeitung :welche Recensionen, Abhandlungen, Aufsätze, Neuigkeiten und Nachrichten, die Botanik betreffend, enthält 24: 370] in Latin</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40003978 Tropicos, genus ''Cephalocroton'']</ref> It is native to central, eastern, and southern Africa from Nigeria and Ethiopia south to KwaZulu-Natal.<ref name=n>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=36754 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>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.</ref>
;Use The dead wood of some species can be used as a fumigant.
;Species<ref name=n/> # ''Cephalocroton cordofanus'' <small>Hochst.</small> - Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania # ''Cephalocroton incanus'' <small>M.G.Gilbert</small> - Nigeria, Ethiopia # ''Cephalocroton mollis'' <small>Klotzsch</small> - Tanzania, Mozambuque, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga # ''Cephalocroton polygynus'' <small>Pax & K.Hoffm.</small> - Somalia ;formerly included moved to other genera ''(Adenochlaena Cephalocrotonopsis Cladogynos Epiprinus Sumbaviopsis )'' {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''C. albicans - Sumbaviopsis albicans'' # ''C. albicans var. virens - Cladogynos orientalis'' # ''C. cordifolius - Adenochlaena leucocephala'' # ''C. discolor - Cladogynos orientalis'' # ''C. indicus - Epiprinus mallotiformis'' # ''C. leucocephalus - Adenochlaena leucocephala'' # ''C. orientalis - Cladogynos orientalis'' # ''C. socotranus - Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus'' # ''C. zeylanicus - Adenochlaena zeylanica''}}
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Category:Epiprineae Category:Euphorbiaceae genera Category:Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter
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