Acca (plant)

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Acca
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Acca
O.Berg
Synonyms [1]
  • OrthostemonO.Berg

Acca is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Myrtaceae that is native to Bolivia and Peru. [1] The scientific name of the genus is from a native Peruvian name for A. macrostema. [2]

Acca was first described as a genus in 1856. [3] [4] The genus comprises two species. [1]

A third species formerly often included in the genus, Acca sellowiana(O.Berg) Burret, is now treated in its own separate genus, Feijoa. [5] This followed genetic research which showed that the type species of Acca (A. lanuginosa) is more closely related to the genus Myrrhinium than it is to "A. sellowiana", thus leaving Acca polyphyletic with respect to Myrrhinium if "A. sellowiana" is included. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Plants of the World Online: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". kew.org.
  2. ↑ Coombes, Allen J. (2012). The A to Z of plant names : a quick reference guide to 4000 garden plants (1st ed.). Portland, Or.: Timber Press. p. 6. ISBN   978-1-60469-196-2. OCLC   741564356.
  3. ↑ Berg, Otto Karl. 1856. Linnaea 27(2–3): 138–140. in Latin
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Acca O. Berg
  5. ↑ "Acca sellowiana (O.Berg) Burret". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 2025-07-04.
  6. ↑ Lucas, Eve J.; Holst, Bruce; Sobral, Marcos; Mazine, Fiorella F.; Nic Lughadha, Eimear M.; Barnes Proença, Carolyn E.; Ribeiro da Costa, Itayguara; Vasconcelos, Thais N. C. (2019-08-06). "A New Subtribal Classification of Tribe Myrteae (Myrtaceae)" (PDF). Systematic Botany. 44 (3): 560–569. doi:10.1600/036364419X15620113920608. ISSN   0363-6445 . Retrieved 2025-07-04.
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