Gynatrix

taxobox
name = " Gynatrix "

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image_caption = "Gynatrix pulchella" at Mount Waverley, Victoria
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Malvales
familia = Malvaceae
genus = "Gynatrix"
genus_authority = Alef.cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=GYNATRIX|title="Gynatrix" |accessdate=2008-09-07|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.|

"Gynatrix" is a genus of dioecious flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, endemic to south-east Australia.cite web|title=The "Gynatrtix" Page|url=http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Gynatrix/Gynatrix.html|work=Malvacae Info|accessdate=2008-09-07]

There are two species within the genus:

*"Gynatrix pulchella" (Hemp Bush, Aboriginal Hemp), a shrub to 3 metres in height with white or cream flowers that occurs in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.

*"Gynatrix macrophylla" (Gippsland Hemp Bush), a rare shrub that occurs in eastern Victoria. [cite book|author=Ross, J.H.& N.G. Walsh|title= A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria (Seventh Edition) |url=http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/dbpages/viclist/cd/index.html|year=2003]

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