Gynatrix

{{Short description|Species of plant in the family Malvaceae}}

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|image_caption = Gynatrix pulchella at Mount Waverley, Victoria

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|taxon = Gynatrix

|authority = Alef.{{cite web |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni?TAXON_NAME=GYNATRIX|title=Gynatrix |access-date=2008-09-07|work= Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database|publisher = Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra}}

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Gynatrix is a genus of dioecious flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, endemic to south-east Australia.{{cite web|title=The Gynatrix Page|url=http://www.malvaceae.info/Genera/Gynatrix/Gynatrix.html|work=Malvacae Info|access-date=2008-09-07}}

There are two species within the genus:

• Gynatrix pulchella (Willd.) Alef. – (Hemp bush, Aboriginal hemp), a shrub to 3 metres in height with white or cream flowers that occurs in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.
• Gynatrix macrophylla N.G.Walsh – (Gippsland hemp bush), a rare shrub that occurs in eastern Victoria.{{cite book|author=Ross, J.H.& N.G. Walsh|title=A Census of the Vascular Plants of Victoria|url=http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/dbpages/viclist/cd/index.html|year=2003|edition=Seventh}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}