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''Galphimia gracilis'', a species in the genus '' Galphimia'' of the family Malpighiaceae, is native to eastern 
Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae - description, taxonomy, phylogeny, and nomenclature
*Anderson, C. 2007. Revision of ''Galphimia'' (Malpighiaceae). Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 25: 1–82. Malpighiaceae {{Malpighiaceae-stub
''Galphimia gracilis'', a species in the genus '' Galphimia'' of the family Malpighiaceae, is native to eastern Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It is widely cultivated in warm regions throughout the world, often under the common names gold shower or shower-of-gold, slender goldshower or sometimes thryallis. In horticultural
Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the cultivation of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and no ...
publications, in the nursery trade, and on websites, this species is commonly but mistakenly referred to as '' Galphimia glauca'', '' Galphimia brasiliensis'', ''Thryallis glauca'', ''Thryallis gracilis'', or often in South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
, ''Thryallis brasiliensis''.
''Galphimia gracilis'' is easily told apart from the true ''G. glauca'' and ''G. brasiliensis'' by the flowers. In ''G. gracilis'' the petals fall as the fruit matures; in ''G. glauca'' the petals are persistent even in fruit. In ''G. gracilis'' many flowers of a dense inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...
are open at one time, and the petals (claw and limb) are long and wide; in ''G. brasiliensis'' only two or three small flowers are open at one time on a sparse inflorescence, and the petals are only long and ca. wide. Pollens are spherical, approximately 16-18 microns in diameter.
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Malpighiaceae
Malpighiaceae - description, taxonomy, phylogeny, and nomenclature
*Anderson, C. 2007. Revision of ''Galphimia'' (Malpighiaceae). Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 25: 1–82. Malpighiaceae {{Malpighiaceae-stub