Triadica

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|image_caption = Triadica sebifera

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|taxon = Triadica

|authority = Lour.

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|synonyms = *Stillingfleetia Bojer

• Carumbium Kurz 1877, illegitimate homonym, not Reinw. 1828
• Sapium sect. Triadica (Loureiro) Müller Argoviensis.

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Triadica is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/654291#page/244/mode/1up Loureiro, João de. 1790. Flora Cochinchinensis 2: 598–599, 610–611] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204081106/http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/654291#page/244/mode/1up |date=2017-02-04 }} in Latin{{Cite web |url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016808 |title=Tropicos, Triadica Lour. |access-date=2014-10-01 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006105730/http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40016808 |url-status=live }} It is native to eastern southeastern, and southern Asia.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=207671 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{Cite web |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=133358 |title=Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 284 乌桕属 wu jiu shu Triadica Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 2: 598, 610. 1790. |access-date=2014-10-01 |archive-date=2013-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015010436/http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=133358 |url-status=live }}

Species included are:

1. Triadica cochinchinensis Lour. - China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Cambodia, Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Himalayas of E + N India, Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
2. Triadica rotundifolia (Hemsl.) Esser - Guangdong
3. Triadica sebifera (L.) Small - China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Japan; naturalized in Himalayas, Cuba, Puerto Rico, SE + SC USA, Sacramento Valley in N California{{Cite web |url=http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Triadica%20sebifera.png |title=Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map |access-date=2014-10-01 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006075830/http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Triadica%20sebifera.png |url-status=live }}

A species formerly included but moved to Neoshirakia is:

• Triadica japonica (Siebold & Zucc.) Baill. - Neoshirakia japonica (Siebold & Zucc.) Esser