Vernicia

Vernicia is a genus in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1790.<ref>Loureiro, João de. 1790. Flora Cochinchinensis 2: 541, 586–587 in Latin, highly abbreviated</ref><ref>Tropicos Vernicia Lour.</ref> It is native to China, Japan, India, and Indochina.<ref name=j>Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families</ref><ref name=grin>Template:GRIN</ref><ref name=ft>Flora of Thailand: Vernicia</ref> The species have often been included within the related genus Aleurites.<ref>Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref><ref>Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 266 油桐属 you tong shu Vernicia Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 2: 586. 1790. </ref>

They are shrubs or trees growing to 20 m tall. The leaves are alternate, broad, and entire to palmately lobed; they may be either deciduous or evergreen. The flowers may be either monoecious or dioecious.<ref name=ft/>

Species<ref name=j/>

Image	Fruit	Scientific name	Distribution
		Vernicia cordata (Thunb.) Airy Shaw.	southern Japan, naturalized in Angola and Nepal
File:油桐 Vernicia fordii -武漢植物園 Wuhan Botanical Garden- (9229897402).jpg	File:Vernicia fordii5.jpg	Vernicia fordii (Hemsl.) Airy Shaw.	southern China, Myanmar, Vietnam, naturalized in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Taiwan, eastern Himalayas, New South Wales, California, Lesser Antilles, Paraguay, Argentina (tung oil tree)
File:木油桐（千年桐）Vernicia montana 20210326150211 03.jpg	File:Vernicia montana 3.jpg	Vernicia montana Lour.	southern China, Indochina; naturalized in Angola, Japan, Java, eastern Himalayas (mu oil tree)