Gyrocarpus

Gyrocarpus
Illustration of Gyrocarpus americanus by William Roxburgh, 1795
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Magnoliids
Order:	Laurales
Family:	Hernandiaceae
Genus:	Gyrocarpus Jacq. (1763)
Species
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Gyrocarpus is a small genus of flowering plants in the Hernandiaceae family with a wide pantropical distribution.

Species

Five species are accepted.

• Gyrocarpus americanus Jacq. – Pantropical
• Gyrocarpus angustifolius (Verdc.) Thulin – eastern Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and Somalia
• Gyrocarpus hababensis Chiov. – Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya
• Gyrocarpus jatrophifolius Domin – Mexico and Central America
• Gyrocarpus mocinoi Espejo – central and southern Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador

References

• Michalak, Ingo; Zhang Li-Bing; Renner, Susanne S. (2010-05-11). "Trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific and trans-Indian Ocean dispersal in the small Gondwanan Laurales family Hernandiaceae". Journal of Biogeography. 37 (7): 1214–1226. Bibcode:2010JBiog..37.1214M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02306.x.

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