Caperonia (false croton) is a genus of plants of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical America and Africa. Species 1. * - S Brazil 2. * - Paraguay 3. * - Guyana 4. * - E Brazil, Paraguay 5. * - S Brazil 6. * - Paraguay 7. * - widespread from Mexico + West Indies to Paraguay + NE Argentina; naturalized in Florida, Alabama 8. * - Maranhão 9. * - Veracruz, Oaxaca 10. * - Guyana, Suriname 11. * - S Brazil, NE Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay 12. * - Cuba 13. * - Africa from Mali to Somalia to Namibia 14. * - Brazil 15. * - Paraguay, Formosa 16. * - S Brazil 17. * - São Paulo, Mato Grosso 18. * W + C Africa from Togo to Tanzania 19. * - Paraguay 20. * - S Brazil, NE Arg