Gunnera
| Gunnera Temporal range: Late Cretaceous - present,
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| Gunnera tinctoria at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Gunnerales |
| Family: | Gunneraceae Meisn. |
| Genus: | Gunnera L. |
| The range of the genus Gunnera | |
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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. The stalks of some species are edible.
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