Metalepis

Metalepis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Metalepis
Griseb.

Metalepis is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1866.[1] It is native to northern South America, Central America, Mexico, Florida, and the West Indies.[2][3][4][5]

Species[6]
  1. Metalepis albiflora Urb. - Colombia, Ecuador, Fr Guiana, N Brazil, West Indies
  2. Metalepis cubensis (A. Rich.) Griseb. - Florida, Cuba, Belize, Veracruz in Mexico
  3. Metalepis gentryi Morillo - Ecuador
  4. Metalepis haughtii (Woodson) Morillo - Ecuador
  5. Metalepis peraffinis (Woodson) Morillo - S Mexico, Central America, Colombia
  6. Metalepis prevostiae Morillo - French Guyana, Panama
formerly included[6]

References

  1. Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf. 1866. Catalogus plantarum cubensium exhibens collectionem Wrightianam aliasque minores ex insula Cuba missas 179 in Latin
  2. 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
  3. Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
  4. León Yánez, S., R. Valencia Reyes, N. C. A. Pitman, L. Endara, C. Ulloa Ulloa & H. Navarrete. 2011. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador, 2ª edición 1–957. Herbario QCA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito
  5. 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
  6. 1 2 The Plant List


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