Croizatia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|taxon = Croizatia

|authority = Steyerm.

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|synonyms = Pseudosagotia Secco

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Croizatia is a small genus of plants in the Phyllanthaceae first described as a genus in 1952.Steyermark, Julian Alfred. 1952. Fieldiana, Botany 28: 308[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016766 Tropicos, Croizatia Steyerm.] It is native to Panama and to northwestern South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=49134 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{cite journal|title=Systematics of Croizatia (Euphorbiaceae)|author1=Grady L. Webster|author2=Lynn Gillespie|author3=Julian Steyermark|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=12|issue=1|year=1987|pages=1–8 |doi=10.2307/2419209|jstor=2419209}}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. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

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1. Croizatia brevipetiolata (Secco) Dorr - Colombia, NW Venezuela
2. Croizatia cimalonia Cerón & G.L.Webster - Ecuador
3. Croizatia naiguatensis Steyerm. - N Colombia, N Venezuela
4. Croizatia neotropica Steyerm. - N Venezuela, Vaupés in E Colombia
5. Croizatia panamensis G.L.Webster - Panama, NW Colombia