Gunnera

Gunnera
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - present, 90–0 Ma
Gunnera tinctoria at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Gunnerales
Family: Gunneraceae
Meisn.[1]
Genus: Gunnera
L.
The range of the genus Gunnera[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Milligania Hook.f., rejected name
  • Panke Molina
  • Pankea Oerst.
Gunnera manicata, Devon, England
Gunnera insignis, Costa Rica

Gunnera is the sole genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the family Gunneraceae, which contains 63 species. Some species in this genus, namely those in the subgenus Panke, have extremely large leaves. Species in the genus are variously native to Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Papuasia, Hawaii, insular Southeast Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.[3] The stalks of some species are edible.[4]

  1. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bergman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference TasteAtlas was invoked but never defined (see the help page).