Ophellantha is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1924.Standley, Paul Carpenter. 1924. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 14(4): 97-98 in EnglishTropicos, Ophellantha Standl. It is native to southern Mexico and northern Central America.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGovaerts, 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.Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1949. Euphorbiaceae. 24(6): 25–170. In P. C. Standley & J. A. Steyermark (eds.) Fl. Guatemala, Part VI, Fieldiana: Botany. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.
Species Ophellantha spinosa Standl. - Honduras, El Salvador, Chiapas, Veracruz Ophellantha steyermarkii Standl. - Guatemala, Chiapas
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