Apteria

Apteria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Burmanniaceae
Genus: Apteria
Urb.
Binomial name
Apteria aphylla
(Nutt.) Barnhart ex Small
Synonyms[1]
  • Lobelia aphylla Nutt.
  • Apteria setacea Nutt.
  • Nemitis setacea (Nutt.) Raf.
  • Stemoptera lilacina Miers
  • Apteria hymenanthera Miq.
  • Monostychosepalum monanthum Barb.Rodr.
  • Apteria ulei Schltr.
  • Apteria boliviana Rusby
  • Apteria gentianoides Jonker

Apteria is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1834. It contains only one known species, Apteria aphylla, the nodding-nixie, native to the southern United States (E Texas to S Georgia), Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  3. ↑ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  4. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
  5. ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 488, 489, Nodding-nixie, Apteria aphylla (Nuttall) Barnhart ex Small, Fl. S.E. U.S. 309. 1903.
  6. ↑ US Department of Agriculture plants profile

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