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055.0000 Family Gnetaceae Blume; Nov. Pl. Expos. 23 (1833), nom. cons.
1 genus, ca. 50 spp.
Species listed in database: 44
= Gneteae Le Maout & Decne.; Traité Général Bot. 539 (1868)
= Gnetoideae J.Williams; Man. Bot. [Balfour], ed. 3: 531 (1855)
= Thoaceae Kuntze; Lex. Gen. Phan. [Post & Kuntze] 615 (1903)
055.0001 Genus Gnetum L.; Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 2: 637 (1767)
Distribution: SE-Asia, 1 sp. to Fiji, 2 spp. to India, 2 spp. W-Africa, 6 spp. tropical Americas. There are many undescribed species in Malesia (the Checklist of Borneo alone lists 10 new species and a lot of unidentified herbar material)
Species listed in database: 44
= Abutua Lour.; Fl. Cochinch. 630 (1790)
= Arthostema Neck.; Elem. Bot. [Necker] 2: 280 (1790)
= Gnemon Rumph.; Herb. Amboin. [Rumphius] 1181 t. 71, 72(1741), ante 1753, ex Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 796 (1891)
= Thoa Aubl.; Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 874, t. 336 (1775)

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