Cephalomappa sinensis is a species of flowering plant of the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a tree native to southern Yunnan and eastern and southeastern Guangxi in southern China and to northern Vietnam.Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 250 肥牛树 fei niu shu Cephalomappa sinensis (Chun & F. C. How) Kostermans, Reinwardtia. 5: 413. 1961Govaerts, 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.
The IUCN Red List assesses the species as Vulnerable.
The species was first described as Muricococcum sinense in 1956, and placed in the monotypic genus Muricococcum.Chun, Woon Young & How, Foon-Chew. 1956. Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica 5(1): 14–15Tropicos, genus Muricococcum In 1961 André Joseph Guillaume Henri Kostermans placed the species in genus Cephalomappa as C. sinensis.
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