Biology:Pseudolmedia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pseudolmedia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Tribe: Castilleae
Genus: Pseudolmedia
Trécul[1]
Species
  • See text

Pseudolmedia is a flowering plant genus in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Species are found in southern Mexico, the Caribbean, and Meso- and South America.[2] They are known in Latin America as lechechiva (approximately "goat's milk tree")[citation needed] and used for timber, construction wood, and sometimes in folk medicine.[citation needed]

Selected species

  • Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul (type)[1] *
  • Pseudolmedia gentryi C.C.Berg
  • Pseudolmedia glabrata (Liebm.) C.C.Berg, called cherry[3]
  • Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul (type)[1] *
  • Pseudolmedia hirtula Kuhlm.
  • Pseudolmedia laevigata Trécul
  • Pseudolmedia laevis (Ruiz & Pav.) J.F.Macbr.
  • Pseudolmedia macrophylla Trécul
  • Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C.Berg
  • Pseudolmedia mollis Standl.
  • Pseudolmedia rigida (Klotzsch & H.Karst.) Cuatrec.
  • Pseudolmedia spuria (Sw.) Griseb.
List sources :[4][5]

* Note: Despite having been designated as types for this genus, The Plant List considers P. ferruginea to be a synonym of P. laevis;[6] and P. havanensis to be a synonym of P. spuria.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The genus Pseudolmedia was first described and published in Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, sér. 3 8: 129. 1847.: later, as no type had been designated by the genus authority, two lectotypes (P. ferruginea and P. havanensis) were designated as types. "Name - Pseudolmedia Trécul". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden (MOBOT). http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017997. Retrieved December 30, 2012. "Type Specimens: LT: Pseudolmedia ferruginea (Poepp. & Endl.) Trécul; LT: Pseudolmedia havanensis Trécul" 
  2. "Name - Pseudolmedia Trécul distribution map". Tropicos. MOBOT. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40017997?tab=maps. Retrieved December 30, 2012. 
  3. {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Pseudolmedia glabrata | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?435185 | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 27 December 2014 }}
  4. GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Pseudolmedia". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. https://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9973. Retrieved December 30, 2012. 
  5. "TPL, treatment of Pseudolmedia". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and MOBOT. 2010. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/search?q=Pseudolmedia. Retrieved December 30, 2012. 
  6. "TPL, treatment of Pseudolmedia ferruginea". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and MOBOT. 2010. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2547582. Retrieved December 30, 2012. 
  7. "TPL, treatment of Pseudolmedia havanensis". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and MOBOT. 2010. http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/tro-21300804. Retrieved December 30, 2012. 

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