Cornutia

Palo de nigua
Cornutia obovata
photo by Omar Monsegur
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Cornutia
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Cornutia is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1753. It is native to tropical parts of the Western Hemisphere: southern Mexico, Central America, West Indies, northern South America.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Species[1]
  1. Cornutia australis Moldenke - Ecuador, Brazil
  2. Cornutia coerulea (Jacq.) Moldenke - Jamaica
  3. Cornutia jamaicensis Moldenke - Jamaica
  4. Cornutia obovata Urb. - Puerto Rico
  5. Cornutia odorata (Poepp.) Schauer - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  6. Cornutia pubescens C.F.Gaertn. - French Guiana
  7. Cornutia pyramidata L. - southern Mexico (Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca, Yucatán Peninsula, Chiapas), Central America, West Indies, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
  8. Cornutia thyrsoidea Banks ex Moldenke - Jamaica

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Carnevali, G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz, R. Duno de Stefano & I. M. Ramírez Morillo. 2010. Flora Ilustrada de la Peninsula Yucatán: Listado Florístico 1–326.
  3. Cowan, C. P. 1983. Flora de Tabasco. Listados Florísticos de México 1: 1–123.
  4. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis
  5. Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá.
  6. Funk, V. A., P. E. Berry, S. Alexander, T. H. Hollowell & C. L. Kelloff. 2007. Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 1–584
  7. Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez. (eds.) 1999. Cat. Vasc. Pl. Ecuador. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75: i–viii, 1–1181
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