Sapium

Sapium
Sapium japonicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Euphorbiaceae
Subfamily:	Euphorbioideae
Tribe:	Hippomaneae
Subtribe:	Hippomaninae
Genus:	Sapium Jacq.[1]
Species
About 125; see text

Sapium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Euphorbiaceae, comprising about 125 species. The genus is native to the tropics, especially the Neotropics. These species have been historically cultivated as a seed-oil crop for soap production and other tallow product, hence the name Sapium.

Selected species

• Sapium aubrevillei
• Sapium bolivianum
• Sapium bourgeaui
• Sapium caribaeum Urban
• Sapium glandulatum
• Sapium glandulosum (L.) Morong
• Sapium haematospermum Müll.Arg.
• Sapium harrisii
• Sapium japonicum (Siebold & Zucc.) Pax & K.Hoffm.
• Sapium jenmannii Hemsl.
• Sapium laurifolium (A.Rich.) Griseb.
• Sapium laurocerasus Desf.
• Sapium longifolium
• Sapium luzonicum (S.Vidal) Merr.
• Sapium montevidense
• Sapium saltense
• Sapium sellowianum
• Sapium stylare Müll.Arg.
• Sapium triloculare^[2][3]

Formerly placed here

• Excoecaria indica (Willd.) Müll.Arg. (as S. indicum Willd.)
• Sebastiania bilocularis S.Watson (as S. biloculare (S.Watson) Pax)
• Triadica cochinchinensis Lour. (as S. discolor (Champ. ex Benth.) Müll.Arg.)
• Triadica sebifera (L.) Small (as S. sebiferum (L.) Roxb.)^[2]

Synonyms

• Carumbium Kurz
• Gymnobothrys Wall. ex Baill.
• Sapiopsis Müll.Arg.
• Seborium Raf.
• Shirakiopsis Esser
• Stillingfleetia Bojer
• Taeniosapium Müll.Arg.

References

1. ^ "Sapium Jacq.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?10708. Retrieved 2010-08-11. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Species Records of Sapium". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?10708. Retrieved 2010-08-11. 
3. ^ "Sapium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=28394. Retrieved 11 August 2010.