Guamatela

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| genus = Guamatela

| parent_authority = Donn.Sm.

| species = tuerckheimii

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Guamatela is a genus of flowering plants in the order Crossosomatales. Guamatela is the only genus in the family Guamatelaceae. The genus comprises a single species, the type species, Guamatela tuerckheimii Donn.Sm., an evergreen shrub with a prostrate habit that is native to Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. The genus Guamatela had formerly been included in the family Rosaceae before the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group placed it in the Guamatelaceae in 2009.{{Citation |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}{{cite web|last=Stevens|first=P. F.|title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, 2001 onwards|url=http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/welcome.html|publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden|accessdate=26 August 2012}}