Gymnanthes

Gymnanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, first described as a genus in 1788. 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.

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

• # Gymnanthes actinostemoides - Mexico
 * Species

• # 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

moved to other genera: Actinostemon Ditrysinia Microstachys Sebastiania Stillingia • # G. angustifolia - Sebastiania schottiana
 * Species

• # 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