{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Glycydendron.jpg |image_caption = ''Glycydendron amazonicum'' fruit |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Glycydendron |authority = Ducke }}
'''''Glycydendron''''' is a genus of plants, under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1922.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31246696#page/221/mode/1up Ducke, Walter Adolpho. 1922. Archivos do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro 3: 199] descriptions in Latin, commentary in French</ref> It is native to South America.<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=91173 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.</ref><ref>Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archivedate=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro</ref><ref>Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.</ref>
;Species # ''Glycydendron amazonicum'' <small>Ducke</small> - French Guinea, Suriname, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Brazil, possibly Colombia # ''Glycydendron espiritosantense'' <small>Kuhlm</small>, - State of Espírito Santo in Brazil
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Category:Euphorbiaceae genera Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Adenoclineae Category:Taxa named by Adolpho Ducke
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