Sphyranthera

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Sphyranthera capitellatamobot31753002356571 0005.jpg

|image_caption = Pl. 1702 Sphyranthera lutescens

|display_parents = 2

|parent_authority = Radcl.-Sm.

|taxon = Sphyranthera

|authority = Hook.f.

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Sphyranthera is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus of its tribe (Sphyranthereae). It was first described in 1887.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16159936#page/5/mode/1up Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1887. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 18: plate 1702] description in Latin, commentary in English, illustrated with full-page line drawing[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40003513 Tropicos, Sphyranthera Hook. f.] The entire genus is endemic to the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, politically part of India but geographically closer to Myanmar.

;Species

1. Sphyranthera airyshawii Chakrab. & Vasudeva Rao - N Andaman Islands
2. Sphyranthera lutescens (Kurz) Pax & K.Hoffm. - N Nicobar Islands + C Andaman Islands