Biology:Oxypetalum

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Oxypetalum
Oxypetalum caeruleum0.jpg
Oxypetalum coeruleum, flowers
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Oxypetalum
R.Br., conserved name
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Amblyopetalum (Griseb.) Malme
  • E.Fourn., Fl. Bras. 6(4): 288 (1885) Schltr.
  • Morillo Pachyglossum
  • Cystostemma Decne.
  • Calostigma E.Fourn., Fl. Bras. 6(4): 204 (1885)
  • Decne. Schistogyne
  • Dactylostelma Hook. & Arn.
  • Bustelma Decne.
  • Schltr. Decne.
  • Widgrenia Gothofreda
  • Malme Corollonema
  • Vent., nom. rej. Schizostemma
  • Rhyssostelma Metoxypetalum

Oxypetalum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described with this name in 1810.[3] The genus is native to South America.[2][4][5][6][7][8]

Oxypetalum coeruleum is cultivated as an ornamental.

Species

(As of November 2023), Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:[1]


formerly included[9]

moved to other genera (Cynanchum, Morrenia, Philibertia, Tassadia, Tweedia)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Oxypetalum R.Br.." (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/331823-2. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, genus Oxypetalum
  3. Brown, Robert. 1810. On the Asclepiadeae 30.
  4. Liede-Schumann, Sigrid; Meve, Ulrich (2006). "The Genera of Asclepiadoideae, Secamonoideae and Periplocoideae (Apocynaceae)". http://www.bio.uni-bayreuth.de/planta2/research/databases/delta_as/www/oxyp.htm. Retrieved 19 November 2013. 
  5. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  6. Zuloaga, F. O., O. Morrone, M. J. Belgrano, C. Marticorena & E. Marchesi. (eds.) 2008. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107(1–3): i–xcvi, 1–3348.
  7. Wood, J. R. I., F. Mamani M., P. Pozo, J. D. Soto & D. Villarroel Segarra. (eds.) 2011. Guía Darwin de las plantas de los cerrados de la Chiquitania 1–212. Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz
  8. Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  9. The Plant List, genus Oxypetalum

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