Caperonia (false croton) is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical America and Africa. • # Caperonia aculeolata - S Brazil • # Caperonia altissima - Paraguay • # Caperonia angustissima - Guyana • # Caperonia bahiensis - E Brazil, Paraguay • # Caperonia buettneriacea - S Brazil • # Caperonia capiibariensis - Paraguay • # Caperonia castaneifolia - widespread from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay + NE Argentina; naturalized in Florida, Alabama • # Caperonia castrobarrosiana - Maranhão • # Caperonia chiltepecensis - Veracruz, Oaxaca • # Caperonia corchoroides - Guyana, Suriname • # Caperonia cordata - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay • # Caperonia cubana - Cuba • # Caperonia fistulosa - Africa from Mali to Somalia to Namibia • # Caperonia gardneri - Brazil • # Caperonia glabrata - Paraguay, Formosa • # Caperonia heteropetala - S Brazil • # Caperonia langsdorffii - São Paulo, Mato Grosso • # Caperonia latifolia W + C Africa from Togo to Tanzania • # Caperonia latior - Paraguay • # Caperonia linearifolia - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Uruguay • # Caperonia lutea - Guyana • # Caperonia multicostata - E Brazil • # Caperonia neglecta - Veracruz, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia • # Caperonia palustris - widespread from SE + SC United States to Paraguay + N Argentina • # Caperonia paraguayensis - Paraguay • # Caperonia regnellii - Minas Gerais • # Caperonia rutenbergii - Madagascar • # Caperonia serrata - tropical Africa • # Caperonia similis - Amazonas in NW Brazil • # Caperonia stenophylla - Minas Gerais, 3 Guianas • # Caperonia stuhlmannii - Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal • # Caperonia subrotunda - Somalia • # Caperonia vellozoana - Rio de Janeiro • # Caperonia zaponzeta - Peru