Hippomane

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Hippomane mancinella (fruit).jpg

|image_caption = Hippomane mancinella

|display_parents = 3

|taxon = Hippomane

|authority = L.

|type_species = Hippomane mancinella

|type_species_authority = L.lectotype designated by M. L. Green, Prop. Brit. Bot. 195 (1929)

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=99362 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms = *Mancanilla Plum. ex Adans.

• Mancinella Tussac

}}

Hippomane is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae described by Linnaeus in 1753.[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40026296 Tropicos, Hippomane L.][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/359212#page/633/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 1191-1192] in Latin It is native to the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, Florida, Venezuela, Colombia, and Galápagos.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.González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394.Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 75(3): 1087–1144.[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Hippomane%20mancinella.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]