Sclerocroton [SEP] parent taxon
Sclerocroton
Sclerocroton is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1845. There a total of 6 known species in this genus; 5 species in continental Africa and a single species in Madagascar.
- Species
2. "Sclerocroton carterianus" - Liberia, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone
3. "Sclerocroton cornutus" - C + SC Africa from Cameroon to Zimbabwe plus Ivory Coast
4. "Sclerocroton integerrimus" - C + S Africa from Zaire to KawZulu-Natal, plus Guinea
5. "Sclerocroton melanostictus" - Madagascar
6. "Sclerocroton oblongifolius" - Zaire, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe
7. "Sclerocroton schmitzii" - Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- formerly included
moved to "Shirakiopsis" 
- "Sclerocroton ellipticus - Shirakiopsis elliptica"