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Latin name	Ginoria Jacq.
Family	Lythraceae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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English name	ginoria; bastard gregre (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands)
French name	ginoria
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Latin name	Ginoria callosa O.C.Schmidt
Family	Lythraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Haiti, Dominican Republic?)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Ecology	hyg
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English name	callose ginoria
French name	ginoria calleuse
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Latin name	Ginoria jimenezii Alain
Family	Lythraceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Haiti?, Dominican Republic)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	Jiménez ginoria
French name	ginoria de Jiménez
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Latin name	Ginoria rohrii (Vahl) Koehne
Family	Lythraceae
Distribution	SE North America (Haiti, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Vincent)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage
Ecology	xer?
Use	ma
Synonym	Antherylium rohrii Vahl
English name	sugarant ginoria; bastard gregre (Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands); sugar-ant (Tortola)
French name	ginoria de Rohr
Spanish name	cereza (Puerto Rico); rosa de ciénega (Puerto Rico, Virgin Gorda); rosa de cinega; serrazuela, ucarillo (Puerto Rico)
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Latin name	Gleditsia L.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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Synonym	Gleditschia L.
English name	honeylocust; honey locust (USA); honey-locust, water-locust
French name	févier
Spanish name	espina de corona (Argentina
Other name	Gleditschie (german); gleditsia (italian)
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Latin name	Gleditsia aquatica Marshall
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	MC ME SE North America (USA: New York, Missouri to Maryland, Texas to Florida)
North America distribution zone	MC ME SE
Height	M
Foliage	D
Ecology	hyg->mes
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Synonym	Asacara aquatica (Marshall) Raf. Cesalpiniodes monospermum (Walter) Kuntze Gleditschia aquatica Marshall Gleditsia caroliniensis Lam. Gleditsia inermis Crantz Gleditsia inermis. L. Gleditsia inermis Mill. Gleditsia monosperma Walter Gleditsia triacantha Gaertn. Gleditsia triacanthos var. aquatica (Marshall) Castigl. Gleditsia triacanthos var. monosperma Aiton
English name	water honeylocust; waterlocust
French name	févier aquatique
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Latin name	Gleditsia triacanthos L.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	M SE North America (Canada: S Ontario; USA: North Dakota to Maine, Nevada to Florida) int N and M Eurasia (France to Germany, Portugal to Italy, former Czechoslovakia, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Crimea, Caucasus, former USSR, Central Asia)
North America distribution zone	MW MC ME SE
Height	L
Foliage	D
Ecology	hel [sci] hyg->[xer] acid->basi calc
Use	fd (intoxicating beerlike liquor made with pods, substitute for coffee made with seed) fr (good honey plant) fw (firewood, fuel) pl (cities) sa ti (furniture, heavy construction, light construction, posts, railroad ties, veneer) tx (intoxicating beerlike made with pods)
Synonym	Acacia americana Cat. Long. ex Stokes Acacia inermis hort. ex Steud. Acacia laevis hort. ex Steud. Acacia triacanthos Gron. Flora Virg. ex Stokes Caesalpiniodes triacanthum (L.) Kuntze Gleditschia triacanthos L. Gleditsia brachycarpa (Michx.) Pursh Gleditsia bujotii Neumann Gleditsia bujotii var. pendula hort. ex Rehder Gleditsia elegans Salisb. Gleditsia ferox var. nana hort. ex Rehder Gleditsia flava hort. ex Steud. Gleditsia hebecarpa S.McCoy Gleditsia heterophylla Raf. Gleditsia horrida Salisb. Gleditsia inermis L. Gleditsia inermis var. elegantissima Grosdem. Gleditsia laevis hort. Par. ex G.Don Gleditsia latifolia hort. ex Lavallée Gleditsia latisilique hort. ex Steud. Gleditsia meliloba Walter Gleditsia micracantha Lodd. ex Steud. Gleditsia polysperma Stokes Gleditsia sinensis var. nana Asch. & Graebn. Gleditsia sinensis var. nana Loudon Gleditsia spinosa Marsh Gleditsia triacanthos var. brachycarpos Michx. Gleditsia triacanthos var. bujotii (Neumann) Rehder Gleditsia triacanthos var. horrida Aiton Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis (L.) Castigl. Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis (L.) G.Schneid. Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis Willd. Gleditsia triacanthos var. laevis Koch Gleditsia triacanthos var. macrocarpos Michx. Gleditsia triacanthos var. nana hort. Kew ex Henry Gleditsia triacanthos var. polysperma Aiton Gleditsia triacanthos f. elegantissima (Grosdem.) Rehder Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis Zabel Gleditsia triacanthos f. nana (Loudon) Rehder Gleditsia triacanthos f. pendula (Talou) Rehder Gleditsia triacanthus Mill. Melilobus heterophyla Raf.
English name	common honeylocust; common honey-locust; honey locust (Canada, USA); honey-locust, honey-shuck (Canada); honeylocust; sweet locust (USA); sweet-locust, thornless common honey-locust, thornless honey-locust, thornless sweet locust; thorntree (USA); thorny honeylocust, thorny-locust, tree-thorned acacia
French name	févier à trois épines; arbre aux escargots, carouge à miel; févier (Morocco); févier d'Amérique, févier d'Amérique sans épines, févier épineux, févier inerme d'Amérique, gleditsia inerme
Spanish name	acacia de tres espinas, acacia de tres púas (Spain)
Other name	Amerikanische Gleditschie (german); christus-dorn (South Africa); Dreidornige Gleditschie (german); driedoring (South Africa); espinheiro-da-Virgínia; Gleditschie (german); gleditsia spinosa, spino di Giuda, triacanto (italian)
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Latin name	Gliricidia Kunth
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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Synonym	Glyricidia DC. Hybosema Harms
English name	gliricidia; quickstick
French name	gliciridia
Spanish name	madera negra
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Latin name	Gliricidia maculata (Kunth) Steud.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico, Guatemala, Belize)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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Ecology
Use	dr fr fw pl sa (coffee shade) ti tx
Synonym	Gliricidia maculata Kunth Gliricidia maculata (Kunth) Walp. Gliricidia maculata var. multijuga Micheli ex Donn.Sm. Gliricidia sepium f. maculata (Kunth) Urb. Lonchocarpus maculatus (Kunth) Urb. Robinia maculata Kunth
English name	spotted gliricidia
French name	gliricidia maculé
Spanish name	madre de cacao (Guatemala)
Other name	sakyab-habi (Mexico)
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Latin name	Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud.
Family	Leguminosae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama, West Indies) N South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guianas) int Eurasia and Africa (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M[L]
Foliage	D[E]
Ecology	hel hyg->xer acid->basi calc
Use	dr (juice of leaves is a remedy for baldness, leaves bath for fever and pain, leaves decoction for fatigue and cold often mixed with the leaves from Annona squamosa, leaves poultice for skin disease, bruises and wound, leaves tea for gonorhea and sinus inflammation, roots tea taken orally for kidney ailments, edema and hepatitis, roots are scraped for kidney trouble, jaundice and dropsy) fd (flowers, honey) fr (cattle, honeyflowers, leaves) fw (charcoal, fuel) ma pl (crop for firewood, garden boundary tree, living fences, ornamental, shade for cacao and coffee) sa (agricultural shade, azote fixation, green manure, land stabilization prior to reforestation, live fences, soil stabilization and improvement) ti (cabinet work, culvert, fence posts, furniture, heartwood for posts, heavy durable construction, house posts, marquetry, mill foundation, ornamental boxes, posts, railroad ties, rough lumber, tool handles, tools, turned work) tx (ground bark, seeds and leaves are mixed with cooked grain and used to poison rats and mice, juice of leaves is poisonous for rodents and dogs, leaves are toxic to horses, roots, bark and seeds are toxic to man)
Synonym	Galedupa pungam Blanco Gliricidia lambii Fernald Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Griseb. Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Kunth ex Walp. Lonchocarpus sepium (Jacq.) DC. Millettia luzonensis A.Gray Robinia sepium Jacq. Robinia variegata Schltdl.
English name	Mexican gliricidia; Aoron's rod (Jamaica); cocoa shade (Trinidad); grow stick (Jamaica); madre, madre of cocoa, madura, madura shade tree, Mexican lilac; mother-of-cocoa (Puerto Rico); Nicaragua cocoa-shade (Trinidad); Nicaraguan; pea-tree (Virgin Islands); quick stick (Jamaica); quick-stick (Guyana, Jamaica); quick stock, St-Vincent plum, St. Vincent plum (Jamaica)
French name	gliricidia du Mexique; gliceridia (Guadeloupe); glicéridia, gliciridia; gliricidia (Guadeloupe); immortelle, lilas étranger, piyon (Haiti)
Spanish name	acacia (Cuba); almácigo extranjero (Dominican Republic); amor y celos (Cuba); baba, bala, balo (Panama); bien vestida, bien vestido (Cuba); cacagua, cacaguance (Honduras); cacahuanance (El Salvador); cacahuananche, cacahuanano (Mexico); cacahuete (Philippines); chanté, cocoíte, cocuite (Mexico); desnudo florecido (Cuba); flor de San Jose (Mexico); floresco (Cuba); frijolillo (Mexico); madera negra (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama); madero negro (Costa Rica, Nicaragua); madero nigro (Nicaragua); madrarde cacao (South America); madre cacao (Honduras); madre de cacao (Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, South America); madreado (Honduras, Nicaragua); madrecacao (Colombia, Nicaragua); madriado, madrial (Honduras); madura (Trinidad); mata raton (Panama); mata ratón (Panama, Puerto Rico); mata ráton (Mexico); mata-ratón (Nicaragua, Panama); mataraton, mataratón (Nicaragua); matarratón (Colombia); michiguiste (Nicaragua); muite, muiti, palo de corral (Mexico); palo de hierro (El Salvador, Nicaragua); palo de parque (Dominican Republic); pinón florido, piñon amoroso (Cuba); piñon de Cuba (Dominican Republic); piñon florido (Cuba); piñón (Haiti); piñón amoroso (Cuba, Dominican Republic); piñón cubano, piñón de Cuba, piñón de parque (Dominican Republic); piñón florido, piñón violento (Cuba); primavera, sakyab (Mexico); sangre de drago, sangro de drago (Costa Rica); sayab (Mexico); varita de San José (Dominican Republic); yaité (Mexico)
Other name	agala, agunmaniye (yoruba); cocuite (nahuatl, Mexico); cuchunuc (zoque); gamal (Indonesia); guie-niiza (zapoteco); jelelte (huasteco); kakawate (Philippines); lila etranje (creole, Haiti); lipa-ca-sui-la (chontal); madera, madura (Nicaragua); mataratón (Netherlands Antilles); mòtèl, piyon, piyong (creole, Haiti); ratonera (Netherlands Antilles); tunduti (mixteco); ujcum (tzeltal); xabyaab (maya); yaga-le (zapoteco); yerba di tonka (Netherlands Antilles)
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Latin name	Gloeospermum Triana & Planch.
Family	Violaceae
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English name	gloeospermum
French name	gloeospermum
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Latin name	Gloeospermum boreale C.V.Morton
Family	Violaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras to Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	boreal gloeospermum
French name	gloeospermum boréal
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Latin name	Gloeospermum diversipetalum Standl. & L.O.Williams
Family	Violaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica, Panama)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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English name	CostaRica gloeospermum
French name	gloeospermum du Costa Rica
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Latin name	Gloeospermum longifolium Hekking
Family	Violaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) NW MW South America (Colombia to Peru)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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English name	longleaf gloeospermum
French name	gloeospermum à feuilles longues
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Latin name	Gloeospermum sphaerocarpum Triana & Planch.
Family	Violaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Panama) N MW South America (Venezuela to Peru)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	M
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Use	dr (decoction of stems for stomachache, good for kidneys) fd
Synonym	Gloeospermum sphaerocarpum var. latifolium Melchior
English name	globularfruit gloeospermum
French name	gloeospermum à fruits globuleux
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Other name	kunkuim nujiut (shuar, Peru); perdiz puñuna (quichua, Peru); ujúkma yutáin (shuar, Peru)
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Latin name	Glossostipula Lorence
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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English name	glossostipula
French name	glossostipula
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Latin name	Glossostipula concinna (Standl.) Lorence
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (S Mexico to Nicaragua)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
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Ecology	hyg
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Synonym	Genipa vulcanicola Standl. Randia concinna Standl.
English name	elegant glossostipula
French name	glossostipula élégant
Spanish name	cola de pavo (Guatemala); guayabillo cimarrón (Mexico); tinajo (Guatemala)
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Latin name	Glossostipula strigosa Lorence
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Honduras)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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English name	strigose glossostipula
French name	glossostipula poilu
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Latin name	Gochnatia Kunth
Family	Compositae
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North America distribution zone
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English name	gochnatia
French name	gochnatia
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Latin name	Gochnatia ilicifolia Less.
Family	Compositae
Distribution	SE North America (Bahamas, Cuba, West Indies)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Synonym	Anastrophia northropiana Greenm.
English name	cerillo gochnatia; candlewood, cerillo (Bahamas)
French name	gochnatia cerillo
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Latin name	Godmania Hemsl.
Family	Bignoniaceae
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Synonym	Xerotecoma J.C.Gomes
English name	godmania
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Latin name	Godmania aesculifolia (Kunth) Standl.
Family	Bignoniaceae
Distribution	SC SE North America (Mexico to Panama) N MW MC South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil: Para, Roraima)
North America distribution zone	SC SE
Height	M
Foliage
Ecology	mes xer
Use	pp (good for paper pulp) ti (fence posts, general contruction, good buildings, interior and exterior construction)
Synonym	Bignonia aesculifolia Kunth Cybistax macrocarpa Benth. Godmania macrocarpa (Benth.) Hemsl. Godmania uleana Kaenzl. Tabebuia aesculifolia (Kunth.) Hemsl. Tabebuia fuscata (Moç. ex DC.) Hemsl. Tabebuia globiflora Ernst Tecoma aesculifolia (Kunth) DC. Tecoma digitata Kunth Tecoma fuscata Moç. ex DC.
English name	horsechesnutleaf godmania
French name	godmania à feuilles de marronier
Spanish name	araguaney sabanero (Colombia, Venezuela); cacalogüiste de flor quemada (Nicaragua); cacho de burrego (Mexico); cacho de burrogo; cacho de cabra (Central America); cacho de cabro (Guatemala); cacho de chivo (Central America, Colombia, Guatemala, Venezuela); cacho de noville (Mexico); cacho de toro (Guatemala); cacho de vaca, cacho de venado, cacho de venado sabanera (Colombia, Venezuela); cayo (Belize); chinandega (Nicaragua); choluteca (Honduras); chorequilo (Guatemala); cornicabro (Colombia, Venezuela); corté blanco (Central America); cortes (Guatemala); cortes blanco (El Salvador); cortés (Central America); cortés blanco (Central America, Colombia, Guyana, Mexico, Venezuela); cortéz blanco (El Salvador); corteza de chivo (Central America, Guyana, Mexico, Venezuela); cuerno chivo (Mexico); cuerno de cabro (Colombia, Venezuela); cuerno de chivo (Guatemala); cuerno de vaca (Colombia, Venezuela); escuintla, joca (Guatemala); La Libertad (El Salvador); pablo blanco, pablo de agua, palo de agua (Guatemala); roble (Central America, Mexico); roble macho (Central America); señrita (Guatemala); tostadillo
Other name	hocop, jayhuay (maya, zoque); xopel, yuy (maya)
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Latin name	Goetzea Wydler
Family	Solanaceae
Distribution
North America distribution zone
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English name	goetzea
French name	goetzea
Spanish name	mata-buey (Puerto Rico)
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Latin name	Goetzea elegans Wydler
Family	Solanaceae
Distribution	SE North America (end Puerto Rico)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage	E
Ecology	mes calc
Use	pl tx
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English name	PuertoRico goetzea
French name	goetzea de Porto Rico
Spanish name	manzanilla, matabuey (Puerto Rico)
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Latin name	Gomidesia O.Berg
Family	Myrtaceae
Distribution
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English name	gomidesia
French name	gomidesia; grand merisier
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Latin name	Gomidesia lindeniana O.Berg
Family	Myrtaceae
Distribution	SE North America (West Indies) N M SC? SE? South America (Colombia to French Guiana, Brazil)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
Foliage	E
Ecology	[sci] hyg
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Synonym	Myrcia fenzliana O.Berg Myrcia lindeniana (O.Berg) Wright Myrcia sintenisii Kiaersk.
English name	Linden gomidesia
French name	gomidesia de Linden; grand merisier; mérisier grandes feuilles (Guadeloupe); merisier-grandes-feuilles; merisier-grands-bois
Spanish name	anguey, anguey blanco (Dominican Republic); anguey frieto (Dominican Republic); auguey prieto; auquey, auquey blanco, auquey prieto (Dominican Republic); cieneguillo (Puerto Rico); yareicillo (Cuba)
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Latin name	Gonocalyx Planch. & Linden ex Lindl.
Family	Ericaceae
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English name	gonocalyx
French name	gonocalyx
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Latin name	Gonocalyx pterocarpus (Donn.Sm.) Luteyn
Family	Ericaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Costa Rica)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S?
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Synonym	Themistoclesia pterocarpa Donn.Sm.
English name	wingedfruit gonocalyx
French name	gonocalyx à fruits ailés
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Latin name	Gonzalagunia Ruiz & Pav.
Family	Rubiaceae
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Synonym	Buena Cav. Duggena Vahl Gonzalea Pers.
English name	gonzalagunia
French name	gonzalagunia
Spanish name	mata de mariposa (Puerto Rico)
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Latin name	Gonzalagunia brachyantha (A.Rich.) Urb.
Family	Rubiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	S
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Ecology	calc
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Synonym	Duggena brachyantha Standl. Duggena petesia Standl. Gonzalagunia petesia M.Gómez Gonzalea brachyantha A.Rich. Gonzalea petesia Griseb.
English name	shortflowers gonzalagunia
French name	gonzalagunia à fleurs courtes
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