# Cephalocroton

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|taxon = Cephalocroton
|authority = [Hochst.](/source/Hochst.)
|type_species = ''Cephalocroton cordofanus'' 
|type_species_authority = [Hochst.](/source/Hochst.)
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'''''Cephalocroton''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [plant](/source/plant) of the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Euphorbiaceae](/source/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](/source/Nigeria) and [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia) south to [KwaZulu-Natal](/source/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](/source/fumigant).

;Species<ref name=n/>
# ''[Cephalocroton cordofanus](/source/Cephalocroton_cordofanus)'' <small>Hochst.</small> - Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
# ''[Cephalocroton incanus](/source/Cephalocroton_incanus)'' <small>M.G.Gilbert</small> - Nigeria, Ethiopia
# ''[Cephalocroton mollis](/source/Cephalocroton_mollis)'' <small>Klotzsch</small> - Tanzania, Mozambuque, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia, [KwaZulu-Natal](/source/KwaZulu-Natal), [Limpopo](/source/Limpopo), [Mpumalanga](/source/Mpumalanga)
# ''[Cephalocroton polygynus](/source/Cephalocroton_polygynus)'' <small>Pax & K.Hoffm.</small> - Somalia
;formerly included
moved to other genera ''([Adenochlaena](/source/Adenochlaena) [Cephalocrotonopsis](/source/Cephalocrotonopsis) [Cladogynos](/source/Cladogynos) [Epiprinus](/source/Epiprinus) [Sumbaviopsis](/source/Sumbaviopsis) )''
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# ''C. albicans - [Sumbaviopsis albicans](/source/Sumbaviopsis_albicans)'' 
# ''C. albicans var. virens - [Cladogynos orientalis](/source/Cladogynos_orientalis)''
# ''C. cordifolius - [Adenochlaena leucocephala](/source/Adenochlaena_leucocephala)'' 
# ''C. discolor - [Cladogynos orientalis](/source/Cladogynos_orientalis)''
# ''C. indicus - [Epiprinus mallotiformis](/source/Epiprinus_mallotiformis)'' 
# ''C. leucocephalus - [Adenochlaena leucocephala](/source/Adenochlaena_leucocephala)'' 
# ''C. orientalis - [Cladogynos orientalis](/source/Cladogynos_orientalis)''
# ''C. socotranus - [Cephalocrotonopsis socotranus](/source/Cephalocrotonopsis_socotranus)'' 
# ''C. zeylanicus - [Adenochlaena zeylanica](/source/Adenochlaena_zeylanica)''}}

==References==
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Category:Epiprineae
Category:Euphorbiaceae genera
Category:Taxa named by Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter

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