title: Astrococcus
text: # Astrococcus
  
  Astrococcus is a genus of plant of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1854. It contains only one known species, Astrococcus cornutus, native to neighboring states of identical names, Amazonas State in southern Venezuela and Amazonas State in northwestern Brazil.
  
  ## Species formerly included
  
  moved to Haematostemon
  
  