Orthosia (plant)

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Orthosia
Orthosia virgata- Soriano, Palmar, Sobre arbustos bajo monte de pinos al margen de la Ruta 55 21.jpg
Orthosia virgata
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Orthosia
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Orthosia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1844. [1]

Species

55 speciesas of May, 2025 accepted at Kew's Plants of the World: [2] [3]

  1. Orthosia angustifolia (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Mexico (Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas)
  2. Orthosia boliviana Liede & Meve - Bolivia
  3. Orthosia bonplandiana (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Colombia
  4. Orthosia calycina (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru
  5. Orthosia cardozoi (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Venezuela
  6. Orthosia cassythoides (Suess.) Morillo - Venezuela
  7. Orthosia congesta (Vell.) Decne. - Brazil
  8. Orthosia conradii (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Mexico (Michoacán)
  9. Orthosia cynanchoides W.D. Stevens - Mexico (Chiapas)
  10. Orthosia dusenii (Malme) Fontella - Brazil
  11. Orthosia eichleri E.Fourn. - Brazil
  12. Orthosia ellemanniae (Morillo) Liede & Meve - S. Ecuador to Peru
  13. Orthosia extra-axillaris W.D. Stevens - Costa Rica
  14. Orthosia florida (Vell.) Liede & Meve - N. Venezuela, E. & S. Brazil and NE. Argentina
  15. Orthosia glaberrima (Woodson) W.D. Stevens - Panama, Costa Rica
  16. Orthosia goyderiana Liede & Meve - Bolivia
  17. Orthosia guilleminiana (Decne.) Liede & Meve - Brazil
  18. Orthosia henriqueana (Silveira) Liede & Meve - Brazil (Minas Gerais)
  19. Orthosia itatiaiensis Malme - Brail (Rio de Janeiro)
  20. Orthosia jaliscoensis Liede & Meve - Mexico (Colima, Jalisco)
  21. Orthosia leivae Liede & Meve - Ecuador to Peru
  22. Orthosia leptocarpa (Rusby) Liede & Meve - NE. Colombia to Venezuela
  23. Orthosia loandensis Fontella & Valente - Paraná
  24. Orthosia meridensis (Morillo) Liede & Meve - NW. Venezuela
  25. Orthosia mexicana (S.Watson) Liede & Meve - Mexico
  26. Orthosia micrantha Liede & Meve - Venezuela
  27. Orthosia misera (L.O.Williams) W.D.Stevens -- Mexico (Chiapas) to Honduras
  28. Orthosia myriantha (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru (Huanuco) to Bolivia
  29. Orthosia nicaraguensis Liede & Meve - Nicaragua
  30. Orthosia nubicola (Morillo) Liede & Meve - Venezuela
  31. Orthosia pallida (Rusby) Liede & Meve - NE. Colombia to NW. Venezuela
  32. Orthosia paranaensis Liede & Meve - Brazil (Paraná)
  33. Orthosia parviflora (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve - Rio de Janeiro
  34. Orthosia pearcei (Rusby) Liede & Meve - Bolivia
  35. Orthosia peruviana (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru (Junín, Pasco)
  36. Orthosia pietrangelii (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Venezuela (Téchira)
  37. Orthosia pubescens (Greenm.) Liede & Meve - Central Mexico
  38. Orthosia ramosa W.D. Stevens - Honduras
  39. Orthosia rariflora (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru (Puno) to W. Bolivia
  40. Orthosia retinaculata (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Bolivia to NW. Argentina
  41. Orthosia rubens (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens - Guatemala
  42. Orthosia scoparia (Nutt.) Liede & Meve - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina [4]
  43. Orthosia selloana (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve - Brazil
  44. Orthosia sepium (Decne.) Liede & Meve - Mexico (E. Oaxaca)
  45. Orthosia smaragdina W.D. Stevens - Guatemala
  46. Orthosia stannardii (Morillo) Liede & Meve - Venezuela (Amazonas)
  47. Orthosia stenophylla Schltr - Central & S. Colombia
  48. Orthosia stipitata W.D. Stevens - Mexico (Chiapas)
  49. Orthosia subulata (Vell.) Liede & Meve -SE. & S. Brazil to Argentina (Misiones)
  50. Orthosia teodormeyeri Liede & Meve - NW Argentina
  51. Orthosia tomentosa (E.Fourn.) Malme - SE. & S. Brazil to Argentina (Misiones)
  52. Orthosia umbrosa Decne. - Rio de Janeiro
  53. Orthosia urceolata E.Fourn. - Brazil
  54. Orthosia virgata (Poir.) E. Fourn. - Argentina
  55. Orthosia woodii Meve & Liede - Bolivia
Partial list of formerly included taxa:
  1. O. acuminata, syn of Matelea acuminata
  2. O. bahiensis, syn of Ditassa capillaris
  3. O. cardozoi, syn of Cynanchum cardozoi
  4. O. ecuadorensis, syn of Cynanchum densiflorum
  5. O. ellemannii, syn of Cynanchum ellemannii
  6. O. grandis, syn of Jobinia grandis
  7. O. kunthii, syn of Cynanchum kunthii
  8. O. meridensis, syn of Cynanchum meridense
  9. O. misera, syn of Metastelma miserum
  10. O. oblongata, syn of Matelea oblongata
  11. O. serpyllifolia, syn of Vincetoxicum serpyllifolium
  12. O. stannardii, syn of Cynanchum stannardii
  13. O. stenophylla, syn of Cynanchum trianae
  14. O. suberosa, syn of Metastelma parviflorum
  15. O. ventensis, syn of Cynanchum ventensis

References

  1. ↑ Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de. 1844. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 8: 526–527
  2. ↑ Plants of the World Online
  3. ↑ Liede-Schumann, Sigrid; Meve, Ulrich (11 June 2024), Toward a Revision of the Genus Orthosia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae: Asclepiadeae), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, doi:10.3417/2024795
  4. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Cynanchum scoparium
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