Flora of North America species comparison

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Gymnanthes

gymnanthes
Habit Shrubs or trees, unarmed, monoecious [dioecious]; hairs absent [unbranched]; latex colorless [white].
Leaves

persistent [deciduous], alternate, simple;

stipules present, persistent;

petiole present, glands absent;

blade unlobed, margins entire [serrate], laminar glands abaxial, submarginal [absent];

venation pinnate.
Inflorescences

bisexual (pistillate flowers proximal, staminate distal) [unisexual], terminal or axillary, racemelike thyrses;

glands subtending each bract 0 [or 2].
Pedicels

present.
Staminate flowers

sepals 0[–3];

petals 0;

nectary absent;

stamens (2–)4(–5)[–100], distinct;

pistillode absent.
Pistillate flowers

sepals 0[–3];

petals 0;

nectary absent;

pistil 3-carpellate;

styles 3, connate basally, unbranched.
Fruits

capsules.
Seeds

subglobose;

caruncle present [absent].

Gymnanthes
Distribution
from USDA
se United States; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Africa; Asia; tropical and subtropical regions
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Discussion

Species ca. 45 (1 in the flora).

Members of Gymnanthes are found primarily in the New World; some are in Africa and Asia.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 12, p. 227. Author: Kenneth J. Wurdack.
Parent taxa Euphorbiaceae
Subordinate taxa
G. lucida
Name authority Swartz: Prodr., 6, 95. (1788)
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