''Gonocaryum'' is a
genus
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of
plant
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s in the
family
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Cardiopteridaceae
Cardiopteridaceae is a eudicot family of flowering plants. It consists of about 43 species of trees, shrubs, and woody vines, mostly of the tropics, but with a few in temperate regions.Vernon H. Heywood, Richard K. Brummitt, Ole Seberg, and Alas ...
described as a genus in 1861.
Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 507 琼榄属 qiong lan shu ''Gonocaryum'' Miquel, Fl. Ned. Ind., Eerste Bijv. 343. 1861.
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''Gonocaryum'' is native to Southeast Asia
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, southern China
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, and Papuasia
Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia.
It comprises the f ...
.[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
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;Species[
;formerly included][
''Gonocaryum sinense - Osmanthus marginatus''
]
References
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Cardiopteridaceae
Asterid genera
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