Common Names - Spurge Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 313 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 8100 |
Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Liane/Herb | |
World Distribution - Cosmopolitan except the Artic. Few in Amazon Basin | |
Comments - Possibly the largest Angiosperm family. Very cosmipolitan, especially in warm climates. Europe has 105 species, Turkey has 91. There are about 1,300 herbs. |