''Cyclanthus'' is a genus of plants in the family

Cyclanthaceae Cyclanthaceae is a family of flowering plants. Taxonomy Earlier systems, such as the Cronquist system and the Takhtajan system, placed it as the sole family in the order Cyclanthales. In the classification system of Rolf Dahlgren, Dahlgren the C ...

, first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to tropical

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and the

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. It consists of large, palm-like

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; Species * '' Cyclanthus bipartitus'' Poit. ex A.Rich. - southern Mexico, Central America, Trinidad, Windward Islands, northern South America (Venezuela, the Guianas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Brazil) * '' Cyclanthus indivisus'' R.E.Schult. - Panama, Colombia

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Cyclanthaceae Pandanales genera Taxa named by Pierre Antoine Poiteau {{Pandanales-stub