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|accepted_name=Brachychiton
|accepted_authority=Schott & Endlicher
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Melet. Bot.,
|place=34. 1832
|year=1832
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae;Brachychiton
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Brachychiton]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek brachys, short, and chiton, tunic, evidently alluding to covering of short hairs on seeds
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 189
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>[shrubs], trunks often swollen proximally, plants monoecious. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules caducous [persistent]; blade often lobed, base usually cuneate to truncate or cordate, margins usually entire or serrate, palmately or pinnately veined. <b>Flowers</b> functionally unisexual; sepals ± valvate, basally connate; nectaries 0 or 10–16; stamens (staminodes in pistillate flowers) [10–]25–30; anthers often crowded; ovary stalked, carpels 5, distinct; styles 5, connate; stigmas 5. <b>Follicles</b> woody, outsides glabrous, insides stellate-hairy. <b>Seeds</b> hairy. <b>x</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea);Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 31 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=guymer1988a
|text=Guymer, G. P. 1988. A taxonomic revision of Brachychiton (Sterculiaceae). Austral. Syst. Bot. 1: 199–323.
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name=Brachychiton
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Schott & Endlicher
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Pacific Islands (Papua New Guinea);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=guymer1988a
|publication title=Melet. Bot.,
|publication year=1832
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Sterculioideae
|genus=Brachychiton
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