Piranhea

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image = Piranhea trifoliata.jpg

|image_caption = Piranhea trifoliata

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|taxon = Piranhea

|authority = Baill.

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|synonyms = Celaenodendron Standl.

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Piranhea is a plant genus under the family Picrodendraceae described as a genus in 1866.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6524521#page/236/mode/1up Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1866. Adansonia 6: 235-238] in French[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009472 Tropicos, Piranhea Baill.]

Piranhea is native to South America and to Mexico.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=156644 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]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

1. Piranhea longipedunculata Jabl. - Venezuela, N Brazil
2. Piranhea mexicana (Standl.) Radcl.-Sm. - Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa
3. Piranhea securinega Radcl.-Sm. & Ratter - Bahia, Goiás, Minas Gerais
4. Piranhea trifoliata Baill. - Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil