Excoecaria

Excoecaria
	Excoecaria agallocha in Krishna Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Euphorbioideae
Tribe:	Hippomaneae
Subtribe:	Hippomaninae
Genus:	Excoecaria; L.
Synonyms
	Commia Lour.; Glyphostylus Gagnep.; Taeniosapium Müll.Arg.;

Excoecaria is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, formally described by Linnaeus in 1759.^[2]^[3] The genus is native to the Old World Tropics (Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and assorted oceanic islands).^[1]^[4]^[5]

The milky latex of Excoecaria agallocha, also known as Thillai, milky mangrove, blind-your-eye mangrove and river poison tree, is poisonous. Mangroves of this plant surround the ancient Thillai Chidambaram Temple in Tamil Nadu. Contact with skin can cause irritation and rapid blistering; contact with eyes will result in temporary blindness. It is distributed in the Pichavaram wetlands, near Chidambaram India, in Australia from northern New South Wales, along the northern coastline around to Western Australia.The latex is extremely poisonous. Even dried and powdered leaves contain the poison which can kill fish very quickly.

Species^[1]

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formerly included^[1]

moved to other genera (Actinostemon Adenopeltis Alchornea Anomostachys Bocquillonia Bonania Cerbera Falconeria Grimmeodendron Gymnanthes Homalanthus Maprounea Microstachys Neoshirakia Sapium Sclerocroton Sebastiania Shirakiopsis Spirostachys Stillingia Triadica )

2

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1759. Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 1288 in Latin
^ Tropicos Excoecaria L.
^ 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.
^ Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 280 海漆属 hai qi shu Excoecaria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1288. 1759.

External links

Milky mangroves

[erika-1] Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

[2] Linnaeus, Carl von. 1759. Systema Naturae, Editio Decima 2: 1288 in Latin

[3] Tropicos Excoecaria L.

[4] 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.

[5] Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 280 海漆属 hai qi shu Excoecaria Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1288. 1759.

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