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Gordonia
Gordonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Franklinia, Camellia and Stewartia. Of the roughly 40 species, all but two are native to southeast Asia in southern China, Taiwan and Indochina. The remaining species, G. lasianthus (Loblolly-bay), is native to southeast North America, from Virginia south to Florida and west to Louisiana; G. fruticosa is native to the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, from Costa Rica to Brazil.
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Loblolly bay
speciesGordonia lasianthus
Huamanchilca
speciesGordonia fruticosa
Konkan Gordonia
speciesGordonia obtusa
Gordonia robusta
speciesGordonia robusta
Gordonia moaensis
speciesGordonia moaensis
Gordonia benitoensis
speciesGordonia benitoensis
Gordonia villosa
speciesGordonia villosa
Gordonia brenesii
speciesGordonia brenesii
Gordonia wrightii
speciesGordonia wrightii
Gordonia urbani
speciesGordonia urbani
Gordonia tomentosa
speciesGordonia tomentosa
Gordonia spathulata
speciesGordonia spathulata
Gordonia samuelssonii
speciesGordonia samuelssonii
Gordonia pubescens
speciesGordonia pubescens
Gordonia portoricensis
speciesGordonia portoricensis
Gordonia haematoxylon
speciesGordonia haematoxylon
Gordonia ekmanii
speciesGordonia ekmanii
Gordonia cristalensis
speciesGordonia cristalensis
Gordonia barbinervis
speciesGordonia barbinervis
Gordonia alpestris
speciesGordonia alpestris
Gordonia acutifolia
speciesGordonia acutifolia
Gordonia curtyana
speciesGordonia curtyana
Gordonia angustifolia
speciesGordonia angustifolia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 81922.