# Drypetes

Drypetes is a plant genus of the family Putranjivaceae, in the order Malpighiales.
It was previously in the family Euphorbiaceae, tribe Drypeteae, and was the sole pantropical zoochorous genus of the family.
The genus comprises about 200 species, found in Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Central America, the Caribbean, southern Florida, Mexico, and various oceanic islands. They are dioecious trees or shrubs.
Along with Putranjiva, also in the Putranjivaceae, Drypetes contains the only plants outside the Brassicales known to contain mustard oils.

## Species

The Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) lists:
* Drypetes acuminata – Queensland
* Drypetes aetoxyloides – Sabah
* Drypetes aframensis – W Africa
* Drypetes afzelii – W Africa
* Drypetes alba – West Indies
* Drypetes amazonica – Ecuador, NW Brazil
* Drypetes ambigua – Madagascar
* Drypetes andamanica – Myanmar, Andaman Is
* Drypetes angustifolia – Central Africa
* Drypetes arcuatinervia – China, Vietnam
* Drypetes arguta – E + S Africa
* Drypetes assamica – E Himalayas, N Indochina
* Drypetes aubrevillei – W Africa
* Drypetes australis – KwaZulu-Natal
* Drypetes aylmeri – W Africa
* Drypetes bakembei – Central African Republic
* Drypetes balakrishnanii – Bangladesh, Myanmar
* Drypetes bathiei – Madagascar
* Drypetes bawanii – Philippines
* Drypetes bhattacharyae – Andaman & Nicobar
* Drypetes bipindensis – C Africa
* Drypetes bisacuta – Laos
* Drypetes brownii – S Mexico, C America
* Drypetes caesia – Sabah, Kalimantan
* Drypetes calvescens – C Africa
* Drypetes calyptosepala – Sumatra
* Drypetes cambodica – Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar
* Drypetes capillipes – C Africa
* Drypetes capuronii – Madagascar
* Drypetes carolinensis – Yap
* Drypetes castilloi – Sabah
* Drypetes caustica – Réunion
* Drypetes celastrinea – Cameroon
* Drypetes celebica – Sulawesi, W New Guinea
* Drypetes chevalieri – W + C Africa
* Drypetes cinnabarina – C Africa
* Drypetes cockburnii – Malaysia
* Drypetes comorensis – Mayotte
* Drypetes confertiflora – Karnataka
* Drypetes congestiflora – China, Philippines
* Drypetes convoluta – Luzon
* Drypetes crassipes – Borneo, Sumatra, Malaysia
* Drypetes cumingii – China, Philippines
* Drypetes curtisii – S Indochina, Borneo
* Drypetes darcyana – Mayotte
* Drypetes darimontiana – Zaïre
* Drypetes dasycarpa – Thailand
* Drypetes dasyneura – Sumatra
* Drypetes deplanchei – New Guinea, Australia, Vanuatu, New Caledonia
* Drypetes detersibilis – Malaysia
* Drypetes dewildei – Sumatra
* Drypetes dinklagei – C Africa
* Drypetes diopa – C Africa
* Drypetes diversifolia – Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hispaniola
* Drypetes dolichocarpa – Saipan
* Drypetes dussii – Martinique
* Drypetes eglandulosa – Bangladesh, Assam, Myanmar
* Drypetes ellipsoidea – Leyte
* †Drypetes elliptica – either Myanmar or Andaman Islands but extinct
* Drypetes ellisii – Andaman Islands
* Drypetes eriocarpa – Sarawak
* Drypetes euryodes – Gabon, Angola
* Drypetes falcata – Camiguin
* Drypetes fallax – C Africa
* Drypetes fanshawei – Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador
* Drypetes fernandopoana – Bioko
* Drypetes floribunda – W Africa
* Drypetes forbesii – Sumatra
* Drypetes fusiformis – Sabah, Kalimantan
* Drypetes gabonensis – Gabon, Congo
* Drypetes gardneri – India, Sri Lanka
* Drypetes gentryi – Mexico
* Drypetes gerrardii – E + S Africa
* Drypetes gerrardinoides – Tanzania
* Drypetes gilgiana – W + C Africa
* Drypetes gitingensis – Sibuyan
* Drypetes glaberrima – W New Guinea
* Drypetes glabra – Rolas I., São Tomé
* Drypetes glabridiscus – Sulawesi
* Drypetes glauca – West Indies
* Drypetes globosa – Philippines
* Drypetes gossweileri – C Africa
* Drypetes gracilis – Cameroon
* Drypetes grandifolia – Philippines
* Drypetes guatemalensis – Guatemala
* Drypetes hainanensis – Hainan, Thailand, Vietnam, Sabah, Sulawesi
* Drypetes harmandii – Laos, Thailand
* Drypetes helferi – Myanmar, Thailand
* Drypetes henriquesii – São Tomé
* Drypetes heptandra – Philippines
* Drypetes hoaensis – Yunnan, Thailand, Vietnam
* Drypetes iliae – Sabah, Sarawak
* Drypetes ilicifolia – Jamaica, Dominican Rep, Puerto Rico
* Drypetes impressinervis – Sarawak
* Drypetes inaequalis – W Africa
* Drypetes indica – S China, E Himalayas, N Indochina
* Drypetes integerrima – Ogasawara-shoto, Kazan-retto
* Drypetes integrifolia – S China
* Drypetes iodoformis – Queensland
* Drypetes ituriensis – C Africa
* Drypetes ivorensis – W Africa
* Drypetes jaintensis – Meghalaya
* Drypetes kalamii – West Bengal,India
* Drypetes kikir – Malaysia, Borneo
* Drypetes klainei – W Africa
* Drypetes kwangtungensis – Guangdong
* Drypetes laciniata – W Africa
* Drypetes laevis – Sumatra, Borneo
* Drypetes lasiogynoides – New Guinea
* Drypetes lateriflora – West Indies, Mexico, C America, Florida
* Drypetes leiocarpa – Nicobar Islands
* Drypetes leonensis – W + C Africa
* Drypetes littoralis – Taiwan, Java, Sabah, Sulawesi, Philippines
* Drypetes longifolia – SE Asia, New Guinea
* Drypetes longistipitata – Hainan
* Drypetes macrostigma – Kalimantan
* Drypetes madagascariensis – Madagascar
* Drypetes magnistipula – Gabon, Cameroon
* Drypetes malabarica – Tamil Nadu
* Drypetes maquilingensis – Philippines, Banggi, Sulawesi
* Drypetes microphylla – Nicobar Is, Malaysia, W Indonesia, Philippines
* Drypetes microphylloides – Sumatra
* Drypetes mildbraedii – C Africa
* Drypetes minahassae – Java, Sulawesi
* Drypetes moliwensis – Cameroon
* Drypetes molunduana – C Africa
* Drypetes monachinoi – Bolívar
* Drypetes monosperma – Luzon
* Drypetes mossambicensis – SE Africa
* Drypetes mucronata – Bahamas, Cuba
* Drypetes nakaiana – Palau
* Drypetes natalensis – E + S Africa
* Drypetes neglecta – Indonesia
* Drypetes nervosa – Malaysia
* Drypetes nitida – Palau
* Drypetes obanensis – C Africa
* Drypetes oblongifolia – India, Sri Lanka
* Drypetes obtusa – China, Vietnam
* Drypetes occidentalis – C Africa
* Drypetes ochrodasya – Sumatra
* Drypetes ochrothrix – Thailand, Sabah
* Drypetes oppositifolia – Madagascar
* Drypetes ovalis – Java, Philippines
* Drypetes oxyodonta – Malaysia
* Drypetes pachycarpa – Malaysia
* Drypetes pacifica – Fiji
* Drypetes parvifolia – C Africa
* Drypetes paxii- C Africa
* Drypetes pellegrinii – W Africa
* Drypetes peltophora – Cameroon
* Drypetes pendula – Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo
* Drypetes perakensis – Malaysia
* Drypetes perreticulata – S China, N Indochina
* Drypetes perrieri – Comoros, Madagascar
* Drypetes picardae – Hispaniola
* Drypetes pierreana – Gabon, Congo
* Drypetes poilanei – Vietnam
* Drypetes polyalthioides – Kalimantan
* Drypetes polyantha – C Africa
* Drypetes polyneura – Bangka, Sabah, Kalimantan
* Drypetes porteri – Tamil Nadu
* Drypetes preussii – W Africa
* Drypetes principum – C + W Africa
* Drypetes prunifera – Sabah
* Drypetes reticulata – S + E Africa
* Drypetes rhakodiskos – SE Asia
* Drypetes riparia – Malaysia
* Drypetes riseleyi – Seychelles
* Drypetes rotensis – Rota in Micronesia
* Drypetes rubriflora – Cameroon
* Drypetes salicifolia – Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam
* Drypetes sclerophylla – Kilwa in Tanzania
* Drypetes sepiaria – India, Sri Lanka
* Drypetes sessiliflora – S Brazil
* Drypetes sherffii – Sumatra
* Drypetes sibuyanensis – insular SE Asia
* Drypetes simalurensis – Sumatra, Simeuluë
* Drypetes singroboensis – Ivory Coast
* Drypetes spinosodentata – C Africa
* Drypetes standleyi – C America, Venezuela, Ecuador
* Drypetes staudtii – Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo
* Drypetes stipulacea – Madagascar
* Drypetes stipularis – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
* Drypetes stylosa – Sarawak
* Drypetes subcrenata – Luzon
* Drypetes subcubica – Java, Bali, New Guinea, Queensland
* Drypetes subsessilis – E Himalayas, N Thailand, N Myanmar, Andaman Is
* Drypetes subsymmetrica – Simeuluë
* Drypetes sumatrana – Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Nicobar Is, Flores
* Drypetes talamauensis – Sumatra
* Drypetes taylorii – Kenya
* Drypetes tessmanniana – Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
* Drypetes thorelii – Cambodia, Vietnam
* Drypetes thouarsiana – Madagascar
* Drypetes thouarsii – Madagascar
* †Drypetes tomentella – SE Asia but extinct
* Drypetes ugandensis C + E Africa
* Drypetes usambarica – Kenya, Tanzania
* Drypetes variabilis N South America
* Drypetes venusta – S India
* Drypetes vernicosa – Queensland
* Drypetes verrucosa – Gabon
* Drypetes vilhenae – Angola
* Drypetes viridis – Thailand, Malaysia
* Drypetes vitiensis – Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
* Drypetes wightii – S India
* Drypetes xanthophylloides – Sarawak
* Drypetes yapensis – Yap in Micronesia