Vismia

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Vismia
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Vismia baccifera
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Hypericaceae
Tribe: Vismieae
Genus: Vismia
Vand.
Synonyms [1]
  • AcrossanthesC.Presl
  • CaopiaAdans.

Vismia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae. [1] Members of the genus are small trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical areas of Central America and South America. [2] Including the countries of Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela. [1]

Like many members of the Hypericaceae, these plants contain xanthonoids.

The genus name of Vismia is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal. [3] It was first described and published in Fl. Lusit. Bras. Spec. on page 51 in 1788. [1]

Known species

Plants of the World Online accepts 48 species; [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Vismia Vand". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  2. Hussain, Hidayat; Hussain, Javid; Al-Harrasi, Ahmed; Saleem, Muhammad; Green, Ivan R.; van Ree, Teunis; Ghulam, Abbas (11 September 2012). "Chemistry and biology of genus Vismia". Pharmaceutical Biology. 50 (11): 1448–1462. doi:10.3109/13880209.2012.680972. PMID   22881063.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID   187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021.