title: Tragia
text: # Tragia
  
  Tragia is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is widespread across North and South America, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, northern Australia, and to various islands in the Caribbean and in the Indian Ocean.
  
  Plants in this genus are sometimes known as noseburns.
  
  Of the more than 150 species in the genus, around 25 are mentioned as medicinal, with strong antibacterial, antifungal and antiproliferative activity.
  
  These species are used in Siddha medicine, which is practiced by the Tamil people, and is used in curing eczema, fevers, wheezing, and diabetes.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Tragia abortiva – Ethiopia
  * Tragia acalyphoides – Uzaramo
  * Tragia adenanthera – Tanzania, Malawi
  * Tragia adenophila – Paraguay
  * Tragia affinis – C + S Mexico
  * Tragia aliena – tropical America
  * Tragia amblyodonta – Mexico, SW US
  * Tragia angolensis – Angola, Zambia
  * Tragia arabica – Ethiopia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
  * Tragia arnhemica – Northern Territory
  * Tragia ashiae – Ethiopia
  * Tragia aurea – Bolivia
  * Tragia bahiensis – Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
  * Tragia balfourii – Socotra
  * Tragia ballyi – Kenya
  * Tragia baroniana – Madagascar
  * Tragia benthamii – tropical Africa
  * Tragia betonicifolia – SC US
  * Tragia bicolor – S India
  * Tragia biflora – Hispaniola
  * Tragia boiviniana – Nosy Be
  * Tragia bongolana – Sudan
  * Tragia brevipes – C + E Africa
  * Tragia brevispica – Texas, Oklahoma, Tamaulipas
  * Tragia brouniana – Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia
  * Tragia capensis – South Africa
  * Tragia caperonioides – Paraguay
  * Tragia catamarcensis – Catamarca
  * Tragia ceanothifolia – Kenya
  * Tragia cearensis – Ceará
  * Tragia chevalieri – Benin, Ivory Coast, Nigeria
  * Tragia chlorocaulon – Bolivia, S Brazil
  * Tragia cinerea – Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea, Kenya
  * Tragia cocculifolia – Madagascar
  * Tragia collina – KwaZulu-Natal
  * Tragia cordata – SE + SC US
  * Tragia correae – Costa Rica, Panama
  * Tragia crenata – Ethiopia
  * Tragia cubensis – Cuba
  * Tragia cuneata – Bahia
  * Tragia descampsii – Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania
  * Tragia dinteri – Namibia
  * Tragia dioica – southern Africa
  * Tragia dodecandra – N Argentina
  * Tragia doryodes – Ethiopia
  * Tragia durbanensis – S Mozambique, South Africa
  * Tragia fallacina – Uruguay
  * Tragia fasciculata – Central African Rep
  * Tragia finalis – N Queensland
  * Tragia friesii – Bolivia, NW Argentina
  * Tragia furialis – SE Africa, Comoros, Madagascar
  * Tragia gardneri – Zimbabwe
  * Tragia geraniifolia – SE South America
  * Tragia giardelliae – S Brazil, Misiones
  * Tragia glabrescens – Kenya, Tanzania
  * Tragia glanduligera – Mexico, S Texas
  * Tragia gracilis – E Cuba
  * Tragia guatemalensis – Guatemala
  * Tragia guyanensis – Amazonas in S Venezuela
  * Tragia hassleriana – Paraguay
  * Tragia hieronymi – Bolivia, NW Argentina, Paraguay
  * Tragia hildebrandtii – E Africa
  * Tragia hispida – Uttarakhand, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Bangladesh
  * Tragia imerinica – Madagascar
  * Tragia impedita – Kenya, Tanzania
  * Tragia incana – Uruguay
  * Tragia incisifolia – southern Africa
  * Tragia insuavis – Kenya, Tanzania
  * Tragia involucrata – Indian Subcontinent
  * Tragia ivohibeensis – Madagascar
  * Tragia jonesii – NW Mexico
  * Tragia karsteniana – Colombia
  * Tragia kirkiana – E + SE Africa
  * Tragia laciniata – S Arizona, Chihuahua, Sonora
  * Tragia laminularis – W Africa
  * Tragia lancifolia – Namibia
  * Tragia lasiophylla – Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia
  * Tragia lassia – Madagascar
  * Tragia leucandra – S Brazil
  * Tragia lippiifolia – Tanzania
  * Tragia lukafuensis – Katanga, Zambia
  * Tragia mazoensis – Zimbabwe
  * Tragia melochioides – Uruguay, NW Argentina, Paraguay, S Brazil
  * Tragia mexicana – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala
  * Tragia meyeriana – southern Africa
  * Tragia micromenes – Zambia
  * Tragia mildbraediana – W Africa
  * Tragia minor – southern Africa
  * Tragia mitis – Sudan, Ethiopia
  * Tragia mixta – E Africa
  * Tragia moammarensis – Yemen
  * Tragia monadelpha – Guinea
  * Tragia montana – S India, Sri Lanka
  * Tragia negeliensis – Ethiopia
  * Tragia nepetifolia – Mexico, Honduras, SW US
  * Tragia nigricans – Texas
  * Tragia novae-hollandiae – Queensland, New South Wales
  * Tragia okanyua – E + SE + S Africa
  * Tragia pacifica – Chiapas, Oaxaca, Sinaloa
  * Tragia paxii – S Brazil, Misiones
  * Tragia peltata – Rio de Janeiro
  * Tragia perrieri – Madagascar
  * Tragia petiolaris – Tanzania, Zambia
  * Tragia physocarpa – Namibia, Limpopo
  * Tragia pinnata – Uruguay, NW Argentina, Paraguay, S Brazil
  * Tragia platycalyx – Singida
  * Tragia plukenetii – E + C + SC Africa, India, Sri Lanka
  * Tragia plumieri – Haiti
  * Tragia pogostemonoides – Tanzania
  * Tragia pohlii – Goiás
  * Tragia polyandra – S Brazil, Misiones, Paraguay
  * Tragia polygonoides – Ivory Coast
  * Tragia potosina – San Luis Potosí
  * Tragia praetervisa – S India, Sri Lanka
  * Tragia preussii – W + C Africa
  * Tragia prionoides – Zimbabwe, Limpopo
  * Tragia prostrata – Zambia
  * Tragia pungens – NE Africa, Yemen, Saudi Arabia
  * Tragia ramosa – SW + SC US, Nuevo León, Coahuila
  * Tragia rhodesiae – Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi
  * Tragia rhoicifolia – N Somalia
  * Tragia rogersii – Limpopo
  * Tragia rubiginosa – Peru
  * Tragia rupestris – southern Africa
  * Tragia sanjappae – S India
  * Tragia saxicola – S Florida
  * Tragia schlechteri – KwaZulu-Natal
  * Tragia schweinfurthii – Ethiopia
  * Tragia senegalensis – W Africa
  * Tragia shirensis – Malawi, Mozambique
  * Tragia smallii – SE US
  * Tragia sonderi – KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini
  * Tragia spathulata – W Africa
  * Tragia stipularis – Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia
  * Tragia subhastata – Peru
  * Tragia subsessilis – Kenya, Tanzania
  * Tragia tabulaemontana – French Guiana
  * Tragia tenuifolia – tropical Africa
  * Tragia tiverneana – Madagascar
  * Tragia tripartita – Sudan
  * Tragia tristis – Paraguay, Brazil
  * Tragia triumfetoides – Ethiopia
  * Tragia uberabana – SE + SC South America
  * Tragia ukambensis – Kenya, Uganda
  * Tragia uncinata – Ethiopia
  * Tragia urens – SE US
  * Tragia urticifolia – SE + SC US, Tamaulipas, Campeche
  * Tragia vogelii – W + C Africa
  * Tragia volubilis – Mexico, S + C America, W Indies, tropical Africa
  * Tragia wahlbergiana – Mozambique, Limpopo
  * Tragia wildemanii – W Africa
  * Tragia yucatanensis – Yucatán, Belize, Honduras
  
  ## formerly included
  
  moved to other genera (Acalypha Adenophaedra Alchornea Bia Cleidion Cnesmone Dalechampia Megistostigma Micrococca Microstachys Omphalea Pachystylidium Platygyna Plukenetia Sclerocroton Shirakiopsis Tragiella Zuckertia )
  
  * T. alienata – Bia alienata
  * T. ambigua – Tragiella natalensis
  * T. anisosepala – Cnesmone anisosepala
  * T. anomala – Tragiella anomala
  * T. arborea – Acalypha filiformis
  * T. bailloniana – Zuckertia cordata
  * T. bicornis – Microstachys corniculata
  * T. bracteata – Omphalea bracteata
  * T. buettneri – Dalechampia ipomoeifolia
  * T. burmanica – Megistostigma burmanicum
  * T. castaneifolia – Acalypha integrifolia subsp. marginata
  * T. chamaelea – Microstachys chamaelea
  * T. cissoides – Bia alienata
  * T. colorata – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. corniculata – Microstachys corniculata
  * T. delpyana – Pachystylidium hirsutum
  * T. dentata (Alain) Alain 1971 not Klotzsch ex Pax & K.Hoffm. 1919 – Platygyna dentata
  * T. elliptica – Shirakiopsis elliptica
  * T. fallax – Bia fallax
  * T. fendleri – Bia fendleri
  * T. filiformis – Cleidion javanicum
  * T. frieseana – Tragiella frieseana
  * T. fruticosa – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. gagei – Pachystylidium hirsutum
  * T. grandifolia – Adenophaedra grandifolia
  * T. hastata Reinw. ex Hassk. 1868 not (Klotzsch) Müll.Arg. 1874 – Cnesmone javanica
  * T. hexandra – Platygyna hexandra
  * T. hirsuta – Pachystylidium hirsutum
  * T. howardii – Platygyna volubilis
  * T. innocua Blanco 1845 not Walter 1788 – Alchornea rugosa
  * T. integerrima – Sclerocroton integerrimus
  * T. integrifolia – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. irritans – Pachystylidium hirsutum
  * T. japurensis – Bia fendleri
  * T. laevis – Cnesmone laevis
  * T. leonis – Platygyna leonis
  * T. lessertiana – Bia lessertiana
  * T. lobata – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. macrophylla – Cnesmone javanica
  * T. mairei – Cnesmone mairei
  * T. marginata – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. mercurialis – Micrococca mercurialis
  * T. natalensis Hochst. – Sclerocroton integerrimus
  * T. natalensis Sond. – Tragiella natalensis
  * T. obovata – Platygyna obovata
  * T. obtusata – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. odorata – Acalypha integrifolia
  * T. parvifolia (Alain) Alain 1971 not Pax 1894 – Platygyna parvifolia
  * T. philippinensis – Cnesmone philippinensis
  * T. pilosa – Microstachys corniculata
  * T. pruricus – Platygyna hexandra
  * T. reticulata – Acalypha filiformis
  * T. rugosa – Cnesmone javanica
  * T. salviifolia – Acalypha salviifolia
  * T. saxatilis Bojer ex Pax 1924 – Acalypha spachiana
  * T. schultzeana – Plukenetia africana
  * T. sellowiana – Bia alienata
  * T. shankii – Dalechampia shankii
  * T. tenuis – Acalypha brachystachya
  * T. triandra Müll.Arg. 1866 – Seidelia triandra
  * T. triandra (Borhidi) Borhidi 1972 – Platygyna triandra
  * T. villosa – Acalypha capensis
  