Lopezia

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Lopezia
Lopezia miniata Costa Rica.jpg
Lopezia miniata, flowering shrub.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Subfamily: Onagroideae
Tribe: Lopezieae
Genus: Lopezia
Cav.
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • DiplandraHook. & Arn.
  • EnthomanthusMoc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
  • JehliaPlanch. ex Rose
  • PeloziaRose [lower-alpha 1]
  • PisauraBonato
  • PseudolopeziaRose
  • RiesenbachiaC.Presl
  • RudiculariaMoc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
  • SemeiandraHook. & Arn.

Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America. [2]

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Description

Herbs or shrubs, mostly freely branched. Leaves petioled, alternate, or the lower opposite, simple. Flowers -solitary, small, pedicelled, in upper axils of sometimes much reduced leaves. Floral tube inconspicuous. Sepals 4, mostly red, narrow. Petals 4, dissimilar, white to rose, the 2 upper unguiculate, with none, one, or two glands at apex of claw; the 2 lower clawed and curved upward, glandless. Stamens 2, adnate to the style and connate with each other at the base, the posterior fertile, the anterior sterile, petaloid. Ovary 4-loculed; style short, filiform, with slightly enlarged and barely lobed stigma; ovules multiseriate, many. Capsule globose to clavate, coriaceous, 4-loculed and -valved. Seeds many, obovoid, granulate. [3]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Lopezia is in honour of Manuel López-Figueiras (1915-2012), who was a (Spanish-) Venezuelan botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), from the University of Havana (in Cuba). [4]

Distribution

It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá. [5]

Species

According to Kew, there are 28 species are recognized in the genus Lopezia in 2022: [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pelozia is a taxonomic anagram of Lopezia. [1]

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References

  1. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A7. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5.
  2. ↑ Hoch, Peter C.; Crisci, Jorge V.; Tobe, Hiroshi (1993-02-01). "A cladistic analysis of the genus Lopezia (Onagraceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 111 (2): 103–116. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1993.tb01893.x. ISSN   1095-8339.
  3. ↑ "Lopezia Cav". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  4. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Lopezia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  6. ↑ Miranda, Faustino (1953). "Lopezia langmaniae". Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México. 24: 88.
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