Rhodospatha

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Rhodospatha
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Rhodospatha latifolia
1908 illustration [1]
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Monsteroideae
Tribe: Monstereae
Genus:Rhodospatha
Poepp.
Synonyms [2]
  • AnepsiasSchott
  • AtimetaSchott

Rhodospatha is a genus of plant in family Araceae. It is native to South America, Central America, and southern Mexico. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Plant multicellular eukaryote of the kingdom Plantae

Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants. However, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes. By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae, a group that includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, mosses and the green algae, but excludes the red and brown algae.

Araceae family of plants

The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe or leaf-like bract. Also known as the arum family, members are often colloquially known as aroids. This family of 114 genera and about 3750 known species is most diverse in the New World tropics, although also distributed in the Old World tropics and northern temperate regions.

South America A continent in the Western Hemisphere, and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It may also be considered a subcontinent of the Americas, which is how it is viewed in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions of the Americas. The reference to South America instead of other regions has increased in the last decades due to changing geopolitical dynamics.

Species

  1. Rhodospatha acosta-solisii Croat - Peru
  2. Rhodospatha arborescens Temponi & Croat - Minas Gerais
  3. Rhodospatha badilloi G.S.Bunting - Venezuela
  4. Rhodospatha bolivarana G.S.Bunting - Bolívar State of southeastern Venezuela
  5. Rhodospatha boliviensis Engl. & K.Krause - Bolivia
  6. Rhodospatha brachypoda G.S.Bunting - Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, the Guianas
  7. Rhodospatha brent-berlinii Croat - Peru
  8. Rhodospatha cardonae G.S.Bunting - Amazonas State of southern Venezuela
  9. Rhodospatha densinervia Engl. - Colombia, Ecuador
  10. Rhodospatha dissidens Sodiro - Ecuador
  11. Rhodospatha falconensis G.S.Bunting - Falcón State of northwestern Venezuela
  12. Rhodospatha forgetii N.E.Br. - Costa Rica
  13. Rhodospatha guasareensis G.S.Bunting - Colombia, Zulia State of northwestern Venezuela
  14. Rhodospatha herrerae Croat & P.Huang - Colombia
  15. Rhodospatha katipas Croat - Peru
  16. Rhodospatha kraenzlinii Sodiro - Ecuador
  17. Rhodospatha latifolia Poepp. - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana
  18. Rhodospatha monsalveae Croat & D.C.Bay - Valle del Cauca in Colombia
  19. Rhodospatha moritziana Schott - Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela
  20. Rhodospatha mukuntakia Croat - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
  21. Rhodospatha oblongata Poepp. - Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas
  22. Rhodospatha pellucida Croat & Grayum - Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Colombia
  23. Rhodospatha perezii G.S.Bunting - northwestern Venezuela
  24. Rhodospatha piushaduka Croat - Peru
  25. Rhodospatha robusta Sodiro - Ecuador
  26. Rhodospatha statutii Sodiro - Ecuador
  27. Rhodospatha steyermarkii G.S.Bunting - Sucre State of northeastern Venezuela
  28. Rhodospatha venosa Gleason - northwestern Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas
  29. Rhodospatha wendlandii Schott - Tabasco, Central America, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela

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References

  1. ↑ Adolf Engler (d. 1930) - "Das Pflanzenreich" heft 37 (1908)
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ↑ Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. ↑ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  5. ↑ Nelson, C. H. 2008. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Honduras 1–1576. Secretaria de Recursos Naturales y Ambiente, Tegucigalpa
  6. ↑ Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.


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