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Cavacoa

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Cavacoa is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1955.^[1]^[2] All the species are native to sub-Saharan Africa.^[3]^[4] It is dioecious.^[5]

^ Léonard, Jean Joseph Gustave. 1955. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 25: 320
^ 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
^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ 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.
^ Van Welzen, Peter C.; Stuppy, Wolfgang (1999). "Phylogenetic Considerations of Euphorbiaceae Tribe Aleuritideae". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 86 (4): 894–903. doi:10.2307/2666174. JSTOR 2666174.

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Cavacoa is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1955. All the species are native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is dioecious.

Species Cavacoa aurea (Cavaco) J.Léonard - Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal Cavacoa baldwinii (Keay & Cavaco) J.Léonard - Sierra Leone, Liberia Cavacoa quintasii (Pax & K.Hoffm.) J.Léonard - Annobón, São Tomé, Zaïre