Asterohyptis

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Asterohyptis
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Asterohyptis stellulata
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Subfamily: Nepetoideae
Tribe: Ocimeae
Genus: Asterohyptis
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Asterohyptis is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, or mint family, first described in 1932. [1] It is native to Mexico and Central America. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Species [2]
  1. Asterohyptis mocinoana (Benth.) Epling - widespread from Veracruz to Costa Rica
  2. Asterohyptis nayarana B.L.Turner - Durango, Nayarit
  3. Asterohyptis seemannii (A.Gray) Epling - Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa
  4. Asterohyptis stellulata (Benth.) Epling - from Sinaloa and Durango south to Honduras

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References

  1. Epling, C. 1933 [1932]. Asterohyptis: a newly proposed genus of Mexico and Central America. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 60(1): 17–21.
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
  4. Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.
  5. Turner, B. L. 2011. Overview of the genus Asterohyptis (Lamiaceae) and description of a new species from northern Mexico. Phytoneuron 2011–2: 1–6.