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|accepted_name=Gymnanthes lucida
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=96. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Crabwood;oysterwood
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ateramnus lucidus
|authority=(Swartz) Rothmaler
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Excoecaria lucida
|authority=(Swartz) Swartz
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sebastiania lucida
|authority=(Swartz) Müller Arg.
}}
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Gymnanthes;Gymnanthes lucida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gymnanthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gymnanthes lucida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 228
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, 1–10 m, latex watery. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules persistent, lanceolate, 1 mm, glands present; petiole 0.2–1.5 cm; blade oblanceolate, 3.5–10 × 1.5–4 cm, base cuneate, margins obscurely gland-toothed, apex acute to obtuse; laminar glands usually 2 near base, elliptic; venation prominent on both surfaces. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–3.5 cm, peduncle 0–0.5 cm; staminate cymules numerous, each usually with 3 flowers per bract, cymule axis 0.2–1.3 mm, bracts reniform, cucullate, 1 mm wide; pistillate flowers usually 1 per inflorescence. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate 0.3–2 mm, usually bearing scalelike bracteole at summit; pistillate to 10 mm, to 30–40 mm in fruit, bearing 1–5 scalelike bracteoles. <b>Staminate</b> flowers yellowish green; filaments connate 0.3 mm, distally distinct 0.2–0.4 mm; anthers 0.4–0.5 mm. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers yellowish green; styles 2–3 mm, connate 1/2 length, distally recurved. <b>Capsules</b> subglobose, trigonous, 0.8–-1 cm diam.; styles persistent. <b>Seeds</b> 4–4.5 × 4 mm; seed coat brown, smooth; caruncle discoid, 1.5–2 mm diam.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Jun); fruiting summer–fall (Jul–Oct).
|habitat=Subtropical moist hardwood hammocks.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Subtropical moist hardwood hammocks;Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|discussion=<p>The young inflorescences of <i>Gymnanthes lucida</i> are formed during the prior growing season and resemble small cones due to the tightly appressed bracts; they expand rapidly at the end of the dry season. The scalelike structures subtending individual staminate and pistillate flowers are here referred to as bracteoles (P. B. Tomlinson 1980) but have also been interpreted as vestiges of sepals (G. L. Webster 1967).</p><!--
--><p><i>Gymnanthes lucida</i> is known in the flora area from Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Gymnanthes lucida
|author=
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Ateramnus lucidus;Excoecaria lucida;Sebastiania lucida
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer (Apr–Jun); fruiting summer–fall (Jul–Oct).
|habitat=Subtropical moist hardwood hammocks.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Subtropical moist hardwood hammocks;Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Gymnanthes
|species=Gymnanthes lucida
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