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Gymnanthes
Genus of flowering plants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gymnanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1788.[3][1] It is found primarily in the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere (from Florida and Mexico south to Argentina), but with some species in central Africa and southwestern Southeast Asia.[2][4][5][6][7]
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Gymnanthes lucida in Florida | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
Subfamily: | Euphorbioideae |
Tribe: | Hippomaneae |
Subtribe: | Hippomaninae |
Genus: | Gymnanthes Sw. |
Type species | |
Gymnanthes lucida | |
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Members of the genus are commonly known as oysterwood.[8] The genus has 45 species and is pantropical.
- Species[2]
- Gymnanthes actinostemoides - Mexico
- Gymnanthes albicans - Cuba
- Gymnanthes belizensis - Belize
- Gymnanthes borneensis - Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra
- Gymnanthes boticario - Brazil
- Gymnanthes discolor - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
- Gymnanthes dressleri - Panama
- Gymnanthes elliptica - Jamaica
- Gymnanthes farinosa - Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Dominica
- Gymnanthes gaudichaudii - Bahia, Rio de Janeiro state
- Gymnanthes glabrata - Bahia, Rio de Janeiro state
- Gymnanthes glandulosa - Glandular oysterwood - Cuba, Jamaica
- Gymnanthes guyanensis - Rupununi
- Gymnanthes hypoleuca - Lesser Antilles, S Venezuela, N Brazil
- Gymnanthes inopinata - Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Gymnanthes insolita - Nayarit
- Gymnanthes integra - Jamaica
- Gymnanthes leonardii-crispi - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda
- Gymnanthes longipes - Mexico
- Gymnanthes lucida - Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America
- Gymnanthes nervosa - Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio de Janeiro state
- Gymnanthes pallens - Cuba, Hispaniola
- Gymnanthes recurva - Cuba
- Gymnanthes remota - Sumatra
- Gymnanthes riparia - Mexico, Central America
- Gymnanthes widgrenii - Minas Gerais
- Species[2]
moved to other genera: Actinostemon Ditrysinia Microstachys Sebastiania Stillingia
- G. angustifolia - Sebastiania schottiana
- G. bahiensis - Sebastiania bahiensis
- G. brachyclada - Sebastiania klotzschiana
- G. brachypoda - Actinostemon brachypodus
- G. brasiliensis - Sebastiania brasiliensis
- G. brevifolia - Sebastiania brevifolia
- G. concolor - Actinostemon concolor
- G. granatensis - Sebastiania granatensis
- G. jacobinensis - Sebastiania jacobinensis
- G. klotzschiana - Sebastiania klotzschiana
- G. ligustrina - Ditrysinia fruticosa
- G. macrocarpa - Sebastiania macrocarpa
- G. marginata - Sebastiania klotzschiana
- G. pavoniana - Sebastiania pavoniana
- G. pringlei - Sebastiania pavoniana
- G. pteroclada - Sebastiania pteroclada
- G. rigida - Sebastiania rigida
- G. schomburgkii - Actinostemon schomburgkii
- G. schottiana - Sebastiania schottiana
- G. serrata - Sebastiania serrata
- G. stipulacea - Microstachys stipulacea
- G. treculiana - Stillingia treculiana
- G. trinervia - Sebastiania trinervia
- G. ypanemensis - Sebastiania ypanemensis