Kingdom Plantae
- Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta - Vascular plants Super Division Spermatophyta
- Seed plants Division
Gnetophyta - Mormon Tea and
other gnetophytes |
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Gnetum is the lone genus in the
family Gnetaceae.
There are about thirty-forty species in the genera, which
occurs
throughout the tropics in Asia, South America and in Central Africa.
The majority of the species of Gnetum are lianas, but two Asian are
trees.
The plants are dioecious, with the male plants producing catkins of
stamens
and the females catkins of ovules barely protected by an envelope.