Gymnanthes

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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
Synonyms [2]
  • Ateramnus P.Browne
  • DuvigneaudiaJ.Léonard
  • GussoniaSpreng.
  • GymnanthusEndl.
  • SarothrostachysKlotzsch

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]

Members of the genus are commonly known as oysterwood. [8] The genus has 45 species and is pantropical.

Species [2]
  1. Gymnanthes actinostemoides - Mexico
  2. Gymnanthes albicans - Cuba
  3. Gymnanthes belizensis - Belize
  4. Gymnanthes borneensis - Borneo, Malaysia, Sumatra
  5. Gymnanthes boticario - Brazil
  6. Gymnanthes discolor - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
  7. Gymnanthes dressleri - Panama
  8. Gymnanthes elliptica - Jamaica
  9. Gymnanthes farinosa - Guadeloupe, Saint Lucia, Dominica
  10. Gymnanthes gaudichaudii - Bahia, Rio de Janeiro state
  11. Gymnanthes glabrata - Bahia, Rio de Janeiro state
  12. Gymnanthes glandulosa - Glandular oysterwood - Cuba, Jamaica
  13. Gymnanthes guyanensis - Rupununi
  14. Gymnanthes hypoleuca - Lesser Antilles, S Venezuela, N Brazil
  15. Gymnanthes inopinata - Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  16. Gymnanthes insolita - Nayarit
  17. Gymnanthes integra - Jamaica
  18. Gymnanthes leonardii-crispi - Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda
  19. Gymnanthes longipes - Mexico
  20. Gymnanthes lucida - Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America
  21. Gymnanthes nervosa - Bolivia, Paraguay, Rio de Janeiro state
  22. Gymnanthes pallens - Cuba, Hispaniola
  23. Gymnanthes recurva - Cuba
  24. Gymnanthes remota - Sumatra
  25. Gymnanthes riparia - Mexico, Central America
  26. Gymnanthes widgrenii - Minas Gerais
Species [2]

moved to other genera: Actinostemon Ditrysinia Microstachys Sebastiania Stillingia

  1. G. angustifolia - Sebastiania schottiana
  2. G. bahiensis - Sebastiania bahiensis
  3. G. brachyclada - Sebastiania klotzschiana
  4. G. brachypoda - Actinostemon brachypodus
  5. G. brasiliensis - Sebastiania brasiliensis
  6. G. brevifolia - Sebastiania brevifolia
  7. G. concolor - Actinostemon concolor
  8. G. granatensis - Sebastiania granatensis
  9. G. jacobinensis - Sebastiania jacobinensis
  10. G. klotzschiana - Sebastiania klotzschiana
  11. G. ligustrina - Ditrysinia fruticosa
  12. G. macrocarpa - Sebastiania macrocarpa
  13. G. marginata - Sebastiania klotzschiana
  14. G. pavoniana - Sebastiania pavoniana
  15. G. pringlei - Sebastiania pavoniana
  16. G. pteroclada - Sebastiania pteroclada
  17. G. rigida - Sebastiania rigida
  18. G. schomburgkii - Actinostemon schomburgkii
  19. G. schottiana - Sebastiania schottiana
  20. G. serrata - Sebastiania serrata
  21. G. stipulacea - Microstachys stipulacea
  22. G. treculiana - Stillingia treculiana
  23. G. trinervia - Sebastiania trinervia
  24. G. ypanemensis - Sebastiania ypanemensis

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References

  1. 1 2 Tropicos, Gymnanthes Sw.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families [ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Swartz, Olof. 1788. Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus 6, 95–96
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Martínez Gordillo, M., J. J. Ramírez, R. C. Durán, E. J. Arriaga, R. García, A. Cervantes & R. M. Hernández. 2002. Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México. Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica 73(2): 155–281.
  6. ↑ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 Archived 2015-09-06 at the Wayback Machine . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  7. ↑ Webster, G. L. & M.J. Huft. 1988. Revised synopsis of Panamanian Euphorbiaceae. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75(3): 1087–1144
  8. ↑ Miroslav M. Grandtner, ed. (2005). "Gymnanthes Sw.". Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees. Vol. 1: North America. Elsevier. pp. 403–404. ISBN   978-0-444-51784-5.


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