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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|taxon = Seidelia
|authority = Baill.
|type_species= ''Seidelia mercurialis'' (syn of ''Seidelia triandra'')<ref name=v/>
|type_species_authority =Baill.<ref>lectotype designated by Pfeiffer, Nom. 2: 1128 (1874).</ref>
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'''''Seidelia''''' is a [[Biology:Plant|plant]] [[Biology:Genus|genus]] of the family [[Biology:Euphorbiaceae|Euphorbiaceae]] first described as a genus in 1858.<ref>Baillon, Henri Ernest. 1858.  Étude générale du groupe des Euphorbiacées 465</ref><ref name=v>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40034830 Tropicos]</ref> The genus is endemic to [[Place:Southern Africa|Southern Africa]] (South Africa and Namibia).<ref name=p>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=190381 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><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>

;Species<ref name=p/>
# ''Seidelia firmula'' <small>(Prain) Pax & K.Hoffm</small> - Namibia, Cape Province
# ''Seidelia triandra'' <small>(E.Mey.) Pax</small> - Namibia, Cape Province, Free State

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[[Category:Acalypheae]]
[[Category:Euphorbiaceae genera]]



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