Gyrocarpus

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

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
N.J. Jacquin, 1763
Species

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Gyrocarpus is a small genus of flowering plants in the Hernandiaceae family with a wide pantropical distribution.

## Species

* Gyrocarpus americanus Jacq. (Pantropical)
* Gyrocarpus angustifolius (Verdc.) Thulin (Africa)
* Gyrocarpus hababensis Chiov. (Africa)
* Gyrocarpus jatrophifolius Domin (Central and North America)
* Gyrocarpus mocinnoi Espejo (Mexico)

## 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. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02306.x.

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