Kaliwatan sa tanom nga bulak ang Tragia mexicana.^[1] Una ning gihulagway ni Johannes Müller Argoviensis.^[2] Ang Tragia mexicana sakop sa kahenera nga Tragia, ug kabanay nga Euphorbiaceae.^[1][3]

Kini nga matang hayop na sabwag sa:

• amihanan-sidlakang & habagatan-kasadpang & habagatan-sidlakang & sentrong Mehiko
• Gulpo sa Mehiko
• Belize
• Guatemala

Walay nalista nga matang nga sama niini.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2019). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2019 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. TaxonID: 43151443. Retrieved 2019-11-11. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. ↑ Müll.Arg. (1865) , In: Linnaea 34: 181
3. ↑ Govaerts R. (ed). For a full list of reviewers see: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/compilersReviewers.do (2019). WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (version Aug 2017). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.