Biology:Gaya (plant)
Gaya | |
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Gaya parviflora from Mendoza, Argentina, | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Gaya Kunth |
Type species | |
Gaya hermannioides[1] Kunth
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Gaya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It has been classed in the Malvoideae subfamily and the Malveae tribe.[3]
It is native to Tropical America with its greatest diversity in Brazil (up to 14 species). It is also found in the countries of Argentina , Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.[2]
General description
Shrubs or herbs, with toothed leaves, flowers either yellowish or purplish, mainly solitary in the axils, sometimes racemose, with 8 carpels or more, membranaceous, bi-valvate and one seeded.[4]
Taxonomy
The genus name of Gaya is in honour of Jaques Étienne Gay (1786–1864), a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist.[5] It was first described and published in (F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth; Editors), Nov. Gen. Sp. Vol.5 on page 266 in 1823.[2]
Known species
According to Kew;[2]
- Gaya ibitipocana Krapov.
- Krapov. Krapov.
- Gaya kelleri Krapov.
- Gaya macrantha Gaya calyptrata
- Barb.Rodr. Gaya matutina
- Krapov. Gaya meridensis
- (Cav.) Kunth ex K.Schum. Krapov.
- Gaya meridionalis Hassl.
- Gaya minutiflora Gaya cardenasii
- Rose Gaya mollendoensis
- Krapov. Gaya atiquipana
- Krapov. (K.Schum.) Krapov.
- Gaya mutisiana Krapov.
- Gaya nutans Gaya cruziana
- (L'Hér.) Sweet Gaya occidentalis
- (L.) Sweet Gaya parviflora
- Krapov. (Phil.) Krapov.
- Gaya peruviana Ulbr.
- Gaya pilocarpa Gaya dentata
- Krapov. Gaya pilosa
- K.Schum. Gaya albiflora
- Krapov. Krapov.
- Krapov. Gaya rubricaulis
- Rusby Gaya domingensis
- Krapov. Gaya tarijensis
- R.E.Fr. Urb.
- Hochr. Gaya weberbaueri
- Ulbr. Gaya endacantha
- Krapov. Gaya xiquexiquensis
- Gaya aurea Hochr.
- Gaya gaudichaudiana A.St.-Hil.
- Gaya gracilipes A.St.-Hil.
- K.Schum. Gaya grandiflora
- Baker f. Gaya guerkeana
- Gaya bordasii K.Schum.
- C.Takeuchi & G.L.Esteves Gaya hermannioides
- Gaya woodii Gaya triflora
- Gaya scopulorum Kunth
- Gaya purpurea Gaya monosperma
References
- ↑ "Taxon: Gaya hermannioides" (in es). https://www.cicy.mx/sitios/flora%20digital/ficha_virtual.php?especie=1751.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Gaya" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/30020831-2.
- ↑ Takeuchi, Cátia; Kano, Cecília H.; Tate, Jennifer A.; Esteves, Gerleni L. (September 2018). "Molecular Phylogenetics and Character Evolution of Gaya and Related Genera (Malvoideae, Malvaceae)". Systematic Botany 43 (3): 676-688. doi:10.1600/036364418X697391.
- ↑ Paul Carpenter Standley Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 23, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico (1920), p. 759, at Google Books
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
External links
- [1] BONPLANDIA 9 (1-2): 57-87. 1996, SINOPSIS DEL GENERO GAYA (MALVACEAE), por A. KRAPOVICKAS (In Spanish, descriptions of many species of Gaya)
Wikidata ☰ Q4039302 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaya (plant).
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