Microstachys

{{short description|Genus of plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Microstachys chamaelea.jpg

|image_caption = Microstachys chamaelea

|display_parents = 3

|taxon = Microstachys

|authority = A.Juss.

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms = *Cnemidostachys Mart.

• Elachocroton F.Muell.
• Tragiopsis H.Karst.

}}

Microstachys is a genus of plants in the Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1824.Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent de. 1824. De Euphorbiacearum Generibus Medicisque earumdem viribus tentamen, tabulis aeneis 18 illustratum 48–49[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40019459 Tropicos Microstachys A. Juss.] It is native to tropical Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Papuasia, Mesoamerica, the West Indies, and South America.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=127624 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=120654 Flora of China, Vol. 11 Page 282 地杨桃属 di yang tao shu Microstachys A. Jussieu, Euphorb. Gen. 48. Fe. 1824. ]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.

;Species

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|# Microstachys acetosella - Angola, Zambia

1. Microstachys bidentata - Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Venezuela
2. Microstachys chamaelea - W Africa, India, Sri Lanka, S China, Indochina, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Solomon Islands, N Australia
3. Microstachys corniculata - from NW Mexico + West Indies south to Paraguay
4. Microstachys dalzielii - W Africa
5. Microstachys daphnoides - Bahia, Minas Gerais, Goiás
6. Microstachys ditassoides - Brazil
7. Microstachys faradianensis - W Africa
8. Microstachys glandulosa - Minas Gerais
9. Microstachys heterodoxa - Bahia
10. Microstachys hispida - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, N Argentina
11. Microstachys marginata - Bahia, Minas Gerais
12. Microstachys nana - Paraná
13. Microstachys nummularifolia - Minas Gerais
14. Microstachys revoluta - Bahia
15. Microstachys serrulata - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
16. Microstachys stipulacea - Uruguay, S Brazil
17. Microstachys uleana - Bahia }}

;formerly included

moved to other genera (Micrococca Sebastiania )

• M. mercurialis - Micrococca mercurialis
• M. ramosissima - Sebastiania brasiliensis