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|taxon = Ophellantha
|authority = [[Standl.]]
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|synonyms = ''Acidocroton'' sect. ''Ophellantha'' (Standl.) G.L. Webster
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'''''Ophellantha''''' is a [[genus]] of [[plant]]s under the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Euphorbiaceae]] first described as a genus in 1924.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39702285#page/131/mode/1up Standley, Paul Carpenter. 1924. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 14(4): 97-98] in English</ref><ref name=j>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40032282 Tropicos, ''Ophellantha'' Standl.]</ref> It is native to southern Mexico and northern Central America.<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=140238 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>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.</ref><ref>Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1949. Euphorbiaceae. 24(6): 25–170. In P. C. Standley & J. A. Steyermark (eds.) Fl. Guatemala, Part VI, Fieldiana: Botany. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.</ref><ref>Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.</ref>

;Species
# ''[[Ophellantha spinosa]]'' Standl. - Honduras, El Salvador, Chiapas, Veracruz
# ''[[Ophellantha steyermarkii]]'' Standl. - Guatemala, Chiapas

==References==
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