Heliocarpus

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Heliocarpus
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Heliocarpus sp.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Grewioideae
Genus: Heliocarpus
L.
Synonyms

MontiaMill. in Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4.: s.p. (1754), nom. illeg.

Contents

Heliocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It was formerly classified in the Tiliaceae. [1]

It was first published in Linnaeus's book Species Plantarum on page 448 in 1753. [2]

The native range of this genus stretches from Mexico to southern Tropical America and the island of Trinidad. It is found in the countries of Argentina , Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuela. [2]

Species

According to Plants of the World Online (Kew) it contains; [2]

GRIN only lists Heliocarpus americanus L. [3]

Ecology

In Veracruz in Mexico, a species of rust fungus Pucciniosira pallidula (Speg.) Henn. (1896) infects Heliocarpus donnellsmithiiRose. [4]

References

  1. Wiersema & Leon (19 April 2016). World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference, Second Edition. CRC Press. ISBN   9781466576810 . Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Heliocarpus L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  3. "Species GRIN-Global". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
  4. López, Armando; García Alvarado, Juventino (February 2002). "Funga Veracruzana: No 64 Pucciniosira pallidula" . Retrieved 9 January 2023.