Biology:Vismia
Vismia | |
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Vismia baccifera | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malpighiales |
Family: | Hypericaceae |
Tribe: | Vismieae |
Genus: | Vismia Vand. |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Vismia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae.[1] Members of the genus are small trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical areas of Central America and South America.[2] Including the countries of Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela.[1]
Like many members of the Hypericaceae, these plants contain xanthonoids.
The genus name of Vismia is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal.[3] It was first described and published in Fl. Lusit. Bras. Spec. on page 51 in 1788.[1]
Known species
Plants of the World Online accepts 48 species;[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Vismia Vand.". Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:19867-1.
- ↑ Hussain, Hidayat; Hussain, Javid; Al-Harrasi, Ahmed; Saleem, Muhammad; Green, Ivan R.; van Ree, Teunis; Ghulam, Abbas (11 September 2012). "Chemistry and biology of genus Vismia". Pharmaceutical Biology 50 (11): 1448–1462. doi:10.3109/13880209.2012.680972. PMID 22881063.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q1310537 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vismia.
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