Croton sacaquinha Croizat

• Authority

  Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

• Family

  Euphorbiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Croton sacaquinha Croizat

• Type

  Type. Circa urbem culta et subspontanea, Manaos, Amazonas, Brazil, Sep 1935, Ducke 384 ([male][female] fl. fr. isotype N Y ) .

• Description

  Distribution and Ecology - Distribution. A small tree known only from the type, and belonging to the C. nervosus-gvonp. It bears some similarity to C. potaroensis, while differing from it, according to Croizat, by less adscendent side veins, filiform stipules, by indumentum and 5 flowers.