Drypetes is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, in the order Malpighiales.

It was previously in the family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family.

The genus comprises about 200 species, found in Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean, southern Florida, Mexico, and various oceanic islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families They are dioecious trees or shrubs.

Along with Putranjiva, also in the Putranjivaceae, Drypetes contains the only plants outside the Brassicales known to contain mustard oils.

Species The Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) lists:

Drypetes acuminata – Queensland Drypetes aetoxyloides – Sabah Drypetes aframensis – W Africa Drypetes afzelii – W Africa Drypetes alba – West Indies Drypetes amazonica – Ecuador, NW Brazil Drypetes ambigua – Madagascar Drypetes andamanica – Myanmar, Andaman Is Drypetes angustifolia – Central Africa Drypetes arcuatinervia – China, Vietnam Drypetes arguta – E + S Africa Drypetes assamica – E Himalayas, N Indochina Drypetes aubrevillei – W Africa Drypetes australis – KwaZulu-Natal Drypetes aylmeri – W Africa Drypetes bakembei – Central African Republic Drypetes balakrishnanii – Bangladesh, Myanmar Drypetes bathiei – Madagascar Drypetes bawanii – Philippines Drypetes bhattacharyae – Andaman & Nicobar Drypetes bipindensis – C Africa Drypetes bisacuta – Laos Drypetes brownii – S Mexico, C America Drypetes caesia – Sabah, Kalimantan Drypetes calvescens – C Africa Drypetes calyptosepala – Sumatra Drypetes cambodica – Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar Drypetes capillipes – C Africa Drypetes capuronii – Madagascar Drypetes carolinensis – Yap Drypetes castilloi – Sabah Drypetes caustica – Réunion Drypetes celastrinea – Cameroon Drypetes celebica – Sulawesi, W New Guinea Drypetes chevalieri – W + C Africa Drypetes cinnabarina – C Africa Drypetes cockburnii – Malaysia Drypetes comorensis – Mayotte Drypetes confertiflora – Karnataka Drypetes congestiflora – China, Philippines Drypetes convoluta – Luzon Drypetes crassipes – Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia Drypetes cumingii – China, Philippines Drypetes curtisii – S Indochina, Borneo Drypetes darcyana – Mayotte Drypetes darimontiana – Zaïre Drypetes dasycarpa – Thailand Drypetes dasyneura – Sumatra Drypetes deplanchei – New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia Drypetes detersibilis – Malaysia Drypetes dewildei – Sumatra Drypetes dinklagei – C Africa Drypetes diopa – C Africa Drypetes diversifolia – Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hispaniola Drypetes dolichocarpa – Saipan Drypetes dussii – Martinique Drypetes eglandulosa – Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar Drypetes ellipsoidea – Leyte †Drypetes elliptica – either Myanmar or Andaman Islands but extinct Drypetes ellisii – Andaman Islands Drypetes eriocarpa – Sarawak Drypetes euryodes – Gabon, Angola Drypetes falcata – Camiguin Drypetes fallax – C Africa Drypetes fanshawei – Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador Drypetes fernandopoana – Bioko Drypetes floribunda – W Africa Drypetes forbesii – Sumatra Drypetes fusiformis – Sabah, Kalimantan Drypetes gabonensis – Gabon, Congo Drypetes gardneri – India, Sri Lanka Drypetes gentryi – Mexico Drypetes gerrardii – E + S Africa Drypetes gerrardinoides – Tanzania Drypetes gilgiana – W + C Africa Drypetes gitingensis – Sibuyan Drypetes glaberrima – W New Guinea Drypetes glabra – Rolas I., São Tomé Drypetes glabridiscus – Sulawesi Drypetes glauca – West Indies Drypetes globosa – Philippines Drypetes gossweileri – C Africa Drypetes gracilis – Cameroon Drypetes grandifolia – Philippines Drypetes guatemalensis – Guatemala Drypetes hainanensis – Hainan, Thailand, Vietnam, Sabah, Sulawesi Drypetes harmandii – Laos, Thailand Drypetes helferi – Myanmar, Thailand Drypetes henriquesii – São Tomé Drypetes heptandra – Philippines Drypetes hoaensis – Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam Drypetes iliae – Sabah, Sarawak Drypetes ilicifolia – Jamaica, Dominican Rep, Puerto Rico Drypetes impressinervis – Sarawak Drypetes inaequalis – W Africa Drypetes indica – S China, E Himalayas, N Indochina Drypetes integerrima – Ogasawara-shoto, Kazan-retto Drypetes integrifolia – S China Drypetes iodoformis – Queensland Drypetes ituriensis – C Africa Drypetes ivorensis – W Africa Drypetes jaintensis – Meghalaya Drypetes kalamii – West Bengal, India Drypetes kikir – Malaysia, Borneo Drypetes klainei – W Africa Drypetes kwangtungensis – Guangdong Drypetes laciniata – W Africa Drypetes laevis – Sumatra, Borneo Drypetes lasiogynoides – New Guinea Drypetes lateriflora – West Indies, Mexico, C America, Florida Drypetes leiocarpa – Nicobar Islands Drypetes leonensis – W + C Africa Drypetes littoralis – Taiwan, Java, Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines Drypetes longifolia – SE Asia, New Guinea Drypetes longistipitata – Hainan Drypetes macrostigma – Kalimantan Drypetes madagascariensis – Madagascar Drypetes magnistipula – Gabon, Cameroon Drypetes malabarica – Tamil Nadu Drypetes maquilingensis – Philippines, Banggi, Sulawesi Drypetes microphylla – Nicobar Is, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines Drypetes microphylloides – Sumatra Drypetes mildbraedii – C Africa Drypetes minahassae – Java, Sulawesi Drypetes moliwensis – Cameroon Drypetes molunduana – C Africa Drypetes monachinoi – Bolívar Drypetes monosperma – Luzon Drypetes mossambicensis – SE Africa Drypetes mucronata – Bahamas, Cuba Drypetes nakaiana – Palau Drypetes natalensis – E + S Africa Drypetes neglecta – Indonesia Drypetes nervosa – Malaysia Drypetes nitida – Palau Drypetes obanensis – C Africa Drypetes oblongifolia – India, Sri Lanka Drypetes obtusa – China, Vietnam Drypetes occidentalis – C Africa Drypetes ochrodasya – Sumatra Drypetes ochrothrix – Thailand, Sabah Drypetes oppositifolia – Madagascar Drypetes ovalis – Java, Philippines Drypetes oxyodonta – Malaysia Drypetes pachycarpa – Malaysia Drypetes pacifica – Fiji Drypetes parvifolia – C Africa Drypetes paxii- C Africa Drypetes pellegrinii – W Africa Drypetes peltophora – Cameroon Drypetes pendula – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo Drypetes perakensis – Malaysia Drypetes perreticulata – S China, N Indochina Drypetes perrieri – Comoros, Madagascar Drypetes picardae – Hispaniola Drypetes pierreana – Gabon, Congo Drypetes poilanei – Vietnam Drypetes polyalthioides – Kalimantan Drypetes polyantha – C Africa Drypetes polyneura – Bangka, Sabah, Kalimantan Drypetes porteri – Tamil Nadu Drypetes preussii – W Africa Drypetes principum – C + W Africa Drypetes prunifera – Sabah Drypetes reticulata – S + E Africa Drypetes rhakodiskos – SE Asia Drypetes riparia – Malaysia Drypetes riseleyi – Seychelles Drypetes rotensis – Rota in Micronesia Drypetes rubriflora – Cameroon Drypetes salicifolia – Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam Drypetes sclerophylla – Kilwa in Tanzania Drypetes sepiaria – India, Sri Lanka Drypetes sessiliflora – S Brazil Drypetes sherffii – Sumatra Drypetes sibuyanensis – insular SE Asia Drypetes simalurensis – Sumatra, Simeuluë Drypetes singroboensis – Ivory Coast Drypetes spinosodentata – C Africa Drypetes standleyi – C America, Venezuela, Ecuador Drypetes staudtii – Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo Drypetes stipulacea – Madagascar Drypetes stipularis – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Drypetes stylosa – Sarawak Drypetes subcrenata – Luzon Drypetes subcubica – Java, Bali, New Guinea, Queensland Drypetes subsessilis – E Himalayas, N Thailand, N Myanmar, Andaman Is Drypetes subsymmetrica – Simeuluë Drypetes sumatrana – Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Nicobar Is, Flores Drypetes talamauensis – Sumatra Drypetes taylorii – Kenya Drypetes tessmanniana – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Drypetes thorelii – Cambodia, Vietnam Drypetes thouarsiana – Madagascar Drypetes thouarsii – Madagascar †Drypetes tomentella – SE Asia but extinct Drypetes ugandensis C + E Africa Drypetes usambarica – Kenya, Tanzania Drypetes variabilis N South America Drypetes venusta – S India Drypetes vernicosa – Queensland Drypetes verrucosa – Gabon Drypetes vilhenae – Angola Drypetes viridis – Thailand, Malaysia Drypetes vitiensis – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga Drypetes wightii – S India Drypetes xanthophylloides – Sarawak Drypetes yapensis – Yap in Micronesia

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