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|accepted_name=Gouania
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.,
|place=263, plate 179, fig. 40. 1763
|year=1763
}}
|common_names=Chewstick;jaboncillo
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Gouania
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gouania]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Antoine Gouan, 1733–1821, French botanist and ichthyologist at Montpellier, director of botanical garden in 1767, later professor of botany and medicine
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 44, 110
|treatment_page=page 109
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Woody </b>vines [climbing shrubs], tendrils present [rarely absent], unarmed; bud scales present. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous [persistent], alternate; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined [3-veined from base]. <b>Inflorescences</b>: axillary or terminal, racemelike or paniclelike thyrses; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> present or absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual [unisexual, plants polygamous]; hypanthium cupulate to campanulate, 1.5–3 mm wide; sepals 5, spreading, pale green, ovate-triangular, keeled adaxially; petals 5 [rarely 0], white to yellowish or greenish, hooded, spatulate, clawed; nectary fleshy, margins 5-lobed [unlobed], lining hypanthium but distally free; stamens 5, enfolded by petals; ovary inferior, 3-locular; styles 3, connate basally. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, breaking into 3 2-winged samaras [rarely nutlets].</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 50–70 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Stems of at least some species of Gouania are chewed to clean the teeth and harden the gums, hence the common names.</p>
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name=Gouania
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.,
|publication year=1763
|special status=
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|genus=Gouania
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