Margyricarpus Ruíz & Pavón.

A genus of eight species in South America, placed in the tribe Sanguisorbeae of the Rose family, with Acaena, Alchemilla, Sanguisorba, and Poterium, to name only those genera best known in gardens; hybrids with Acaena have been recorded, despite the great differences between their fruits (Bean 1981; Mabberley 2017). In Margyricarpus the fruit is an achene, enclosed in the fleshy calyx-tube that swells to make a single berry-like fruit. The closely related Tetraglochin, with dry winged fruits, has on occasion been included in Margyricarpus, but is now considered both genetically and morphologically distinct.