Excoecaria is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae, formally described by Linnaeus in 1759. The genus is native to the Old World Tropics (Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and assorted oceanic islands). moved to other genera (Actinostemon Adenopeltis Alchornea Anomostachys Bocquillonia Bonania Cerbera Falconeria Grimmeodendron Gymnanthes Homalanthus Maprounea Microstachys Neoshirakia Sapium Sclerocroton Sebastiania Shirakiopsis Spirostachys Stillingia Triadica )