Family · Other eudicots

Gunneraceae

Giant rhubarb (Gunnera)

Single genus Gunnera: herbs ranging from tiny to giant-leaved, hosting nitrogen-fixing Nostoc cyanobacteria in their stems.

Accepted species

66accepted names · Kew WCVP

Genus

1accepted genus · Kew WCVP

Origin

≈82 MaCretaceous · crown age, Jin & Qian 2022 megatree

Centre of diversity

Southern Americamost native species · WGSRPD

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Plants you might know

• Gunnera manicata
• Gunnera tinctoria

Its genus

• Gunnera66 spp.

Where it grows

• Southern America48
• Australasia11
• Pacific3
• Northern America2
• Asia-Tropical2
• Antarctic1
• Africa1

Native species richness by botanical continent (WGSRPD level 1), from Kew WCVP.

Related families

Gunneraceae sits in the order Gunnerales.

• MyrothamnaceaeResurrection plant family2