Nasa (plant)

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Nasa
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Nasa urens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Cornales
Family: Loasaceae
Genus: Nasa
Weigend
Species

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Nasa is a genus of plants in the family Loasaceae containing over 100 known species, all of which are found in South America with the exception of two species endemic to Central America. They are common in submontane to montane environments. [1] [2] [3]

Species include:

References

  1. "Nasa GRIN-Global". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  2. Henning, Tilo; Cano, Asunción; Weigend, Maximilian (2011-07-06). "Nueva especie arbustiva de Nasa Weigend ser. Carunculatae (Urb. & Gilg) Weigend (Loasaceae) de la Zona Amotape-Huancabamba". Revista Peruana de Biología. 16 (2). doi: 10.15381/rpb.v16i2.197 . ISSN   1727-9933.
  3. Weigend. (2006). In: Nasa and the Conquest of South America 214 (1997), Et Taxon 55(2): 465.
  4. Henning, Tilo; Allen, Joshua P.; Montesinos-Tubeé, Daniel; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Eric F.; Peña, José Luis Marcelo; Acuña-Castillo, Rafael (2025). "No end to endemism – contributions to the difficult Nasa Weigend Series Alatae (Loasaceae). A new species from Peru and the rehabilitation of " Loasa" calycina Benth". PhytoKeys (252): 163–186. Bibcode:2025PhytK.252..163H. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.252.141635 . ISSN   1314-2003. PMC   11865914 . PMID   40017719.
  5. Publishers, Pensoft. "Threatened Peruvian plant discovery highlights the power of citizen science". phys.org. Retrieved 2025-04-03.