{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Chaetocarpus echinocarpus 1.jpg | image_caption = ''Chaetocarpus echinocarpus'' | taxon = Chaetocarpus | authority = Thwaites 1854, conserved name, not Schreb. 1789 (Sapotaceae) | type_species = ''Chaetocarpus pungens'' | type_species_authority = Thwaites | synonyms_ref = <ref name=j/> | synonyms = *''Gaedawakka'' <small>Kuntze</small> *''Mettenia'' <small>Griseb.</small> *''Neochevaliera'' <small>A.Chev. & Beille</small> *''Regnaldia'' <small>Baill.</small> }}
'''''Chaetocarpus''''' is a genus of plants in the family Peraceae, formerly Euphorbiaceae, erected as a genus in 1854.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/783120#page/312/mode/1up 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</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40005175 Tropicos, genus ''Chaetocarpus'']</ref> Species of the genus ''Chaetocarpus'' grow as trees or shrubs. They are native to the Americas, Africa,<ref name=bret>Breteler, F. J. (2002). [http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n2a9.pdf Novitates Gabonenses 46. A new ''Chaetocarpus'' (Euphorbiaceae) from Gabon.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422202843/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/adanson/a02n2a9.pdf |date=22 April 2013 }} ''Adansonia'' 24(2) 221-27.</ref> and Asia.<ref name=foc>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=106332 ''Chaetocarpus''.] Flora of China.</ref><ref name=j>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=37332 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> Some species are endangered.<ref name=iucn>World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/32549/0 ''Chaetocarpus pubescens'']. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. Retrieved 8 May 2013.</ref>
;Species<ref name=j/> * ''Chaetocarpus acutifolius'' <small>(Britton & P.Wilson) Borhidi</small> – Sierra de Moa in Cuba * ''Chaetocarpus africanus'' <small>Pax</small> – C Africa * ''Chaetocarpus castanocarpus'' <small>(Roxb.) Thwaites</small> – SE Asia, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka * ''Chaetocarpus cordifolius'' <small>(Urb.) Borhidi</small> – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica * ''Chaetocarpus coriaceus'' <small>Thwaites</small> – Sri Lanka * ''Chaetocarpus cubensis'' <small>Fawc. & Rendle</small> – Cuba * ''Chaetocarpus echinocarpus'' (Baill.) Ducke – Bolivia, Brazil * ''Chaetocarpus ferrugineus'' <small>Philcox</small> – Sri Lanka * ''Chaetocarpus gabonensis'' <small>Breteler</small> – Gabon * ''Chaetocarpus globosus'' <small>(Sw.) Fawc. & Rendle</small> – Jamaica, Cuba, Dominican Rep. * ''Chaetocarpus myrsinites'' <small>Baill.</small> – Bolivia, Brazil * ''Chaetocarpus parvifolius'' <small>Borhidi</small> – Cuba * ''Chaetocarpus pearcei'' <small>Rusby</small> – Bolivia * ''Chaetocarpus pubescens'' <small>(Thwaites) Hook.f.</small> – Sri Lanka * ''Chaetocarpus rabaraba'' <small>Capuron</small> – Madagascar * ''Chaetocarpus schomburgkianus'' <small>(Kuntze) Pax & K.Hoffm.</small> – Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil
;member of homonymic genus, synonym of ''Pouteria'' * ''Chaetocarpus pouteria'' <small>J.F.Gmel,</small> synonym of ''Pouteria guianensis'' <small>Aubl.</small> (Sapotaceae)
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