Mosiera

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Mosiera
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M. guineensis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Mosiera
Small
Type species
Mosiera longipes
(O.Berg) Small [1] [2]

Mosiera is a genus of shrubs and small trees in the family Myrtaceae, first described as a genus in 1933. [3] [2] It is native to Mexico, Guatemala, the West Indies, Brazil, and Florida. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

The genus was named in honor of Charles A. Mosier [10]

Accepted species [4]
  1. Mosiera acunae – Cuba
  2. Mosiera androsiana Andros I [11]
  3. Mosiera araneosa – Cuba
  4. Mosiera baracoensis – Cuba
  5. Mosiera bissei – Cuba
  6. Mosiera bullata – Cuba
  7. Mosiera cabanasensis – Cuba
  8. Mosiera calycolpoides – Cuba
  9. Mosiera contrerasii Petén, Quintana Roo
  10. Mosiera crenulata – Cuba
  11. Mosiera cuspidata Dominican Republic
  12. Mosiera del-riscoi – Cuba
  13. Mosiera ehrenbergii Tamaulipas, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
  14. Mosiera ekmanii – Sierra de Nipe in Cuba
  15. Mosiera elliptica – Cuba
  16. Mosiera gracilipes Dominican Republic
  17. Mosiera havanensis – Cuba
  18. Mosiera jackii – Cuba
  19. Mosiera longipes Bahamas, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Turks & Caicos, Netherlands Antilles, Florida
  20. Mosiera macrophylla – Cuba
  21. Mosiera × miraflorensis – Cuba
  22. Mosiera moaensis – Sierra de Moa in Cuba
  23. Mosiera munizii – Cuba
  24. Mosiera nummularioides – Cuba
  25. Mosiera occidentalis – Cuba
  26. Mosiera oonophylla – Cuba
  27. Mosiera ophiticola – Sierra de Moa in Cuba
  28. Mosiera tiburona Massif de la Hotte
  29. Mosiera tussacii – Haiti
  30. Mosiera urbaniana Dominican Republic
  31. Mosiera wrightii – Cuba
  32. Mosiera xerophytica Puerto Rico, St. John

References

  1. lectotype designated by McVaugh, Taxon 5: (1956)
  2. 1 2 Tropicos, Mosiera Small
  3. Small, John Kunkel. 1933. Manual of the Southeastern Flora 936–937
  4. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
  7. Landrum, L. R. & M. L. Kawasaki. 1997. The genera of Myrtaceae in Brazil: an illustrated synoptic treatment and identification keys. Brittonia 49(4): 508–536
  8. Landrum, L. R. 1992. Mosiera (Myrtaceae) in Mexico and Mesoamerica. Novon 2(1): 26–29
  9. Carnevali, G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Duno de Stefano & I. M. Ramírez Morillo. 2010. Flora Ilustrada de la Peninsula Yucatán: Listado Florístico
  10. Small, John Kunkel. 1933. Manual of the Southeastern Flora 1506
  11. Correll, Donovan Stewart. 1977. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 58: 41-42 as synonym Psidium androsianum (Urb.) Correll

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