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Gouania
	Gouania hillebrandii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae;
Division:	Magnoliophyta;
Class:	Magnoliopsida;
Order:	Rosales;
Family:	Rhamnaceae;
Tribe:	Gouanieae;
Genus:	Gouania; Jacq.
Species
	See text

For the genus of clingfishes, see blunt-snouted clingfish.

Gouania is a genus of between 50-70 species of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world, including Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean islands, southern Asia, the Americas and Hawaiʻi. They are shrubs or lianas. A revision of the species in Madagascar and the other western Indian Ocean islands is in preparation, where the genus has an important centre of diversity. The work will recognise several new species.

[edit] Selected species

Gouania corylifolia Raddi (Brazil)
Gouania hillebrandii Oliv. ex Hillebr. (Hawaiʻi)
Gouania leptostachya DC. (South Asia, Southeast Asia)
Gouania longispicata (Central Africa)
Gouania lupuloides (L.) Urb. - Chewstick or Toothbrush Tree (Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, northern South America)
Gouania meyenii Steud. (Hawaiʻi)
Gouania napalensis Wall. (India, Nepal)
Gouania polygama (Jacq.) Urb. (Mexico, Central and South America)
Gouania vitifolia A.Gray (Hawaiʻi)

[edit] References

^ "Gouania". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-02-10. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5114. Retrieved 2009-02-15.

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[0] "Gouania". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-02-10. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5114. Retrieved 2009-02-15.

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