Bocagea

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Bocagea
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Black and white botanical illustration of Bocagea viridis showing a branch with leaves and flowers, as well as floral parts.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Genus: Bocagea
A.St.-Hil.
Species

4, see text.

Bocagea is a genus of plants in the family Annonaceae. It comprises four species distributed in Brazil. [1] [2] Augustin Saint-Hilaire, the French botanist who first formally described the genus, named it after Josephi Mariae de Souza du Bocage, who he said beautifully translated a poem about flowers into Portuguese and illustrated it.

Contents

All species of Bocagea are rare and are at least endangered. [2]

Description

Bocagea are shrubs or small trees with two rows of petals, 3 interior and 3 exterior, and 6 stamens. [3]

Species

There are currently four described species in Bocagea: [2]

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  2. Hypenia brachystachys(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - southern Brazil
  3. Hypenia calycina(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  4. Hypenia concinna(Benth.) Harley - Tocantins
  5. Hypenia crispata(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Goiás
  6. Hypenia densiflora(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  7. Hypenia durifolia(Epling) Harley - Brazil
  8. Hypenia gardneriana(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  9. Hypenia glauca(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil, Paraguay
  10. Hypenia inelegans(Epling) Harley - Brazil
  11. Hypenia irregularis(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  12. Hypenia macrantha(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  13. Hypenia macrosiphon(Briq.) Harley - Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia
  14. Hypenia marifolia(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  15. Hypenia micrantha(Benth.) Harley - Mato Grosso
  16. Hypenia paniculata(Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  17. Hypenia paradisi(Harley) Harley - Goiás
  18. Hypenia pauliana(Epling) Harley - Brazil
  19. Hypenia perplexa(Epling) Harley - Brazil
  20. Hypenia pruinosa(Pohl ex Benth.) Harley - Brazil
  21. Hypenia reticulata(Mart. ex Benth.) Harley - eastern Brazil
  22. Hypenia salzmannii(Benth.) Harley - Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela
  23. Hypenia simplex(A.St.-Hil. ex Benth.) Harley & J.F.B.Pastore - Brazil
  24. Hypenia subrosea(Harley) Harley - Goiás
  25. Hypenia violaceaMart.Gord. & S.Valencia - Guerrero, Oaxaca
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References

  1. "Bocagea A.St.-Hil". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 Mello-Silva, Renato & Lopes, Jenifer De Carvalho (2020-12-15). "The Brazilian Atlantic Forest genus Bocagea (Annonaceae) revisited, with two new species". Phytotaxa. 475 (4): 279–288. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.475.4.5. ISSN   1179-3163.
  3. Saint-Hilaire, Augustin (1825). Flora Brasiliae meridionalis (in French and Latin). Vol. 1. Paris: Apud A. Belin. p. 41.