Ditassa is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810.[2] It is native to South America.[3][4][5]

Ditassa
Ditassa decussata (right)
(syn of Minaria decussata)
Ditassa mucronata (left)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Ditassa
R.Br.
Species
  1. Ditassa acerifolia - S Venezuela
  2. Ditassa aequicymosa - São Paulo
  3. Ditassa albiflora - Peru
  4. Ditassa albonerva - Lara in Venezuela
  5. Ditassa anderssonii - Ecuador
  6. Ditassa auriflora - Minas Gerais
  7. Ditassa auyantepuiensis - Venezuela
  8. Ditassa ayangannensis - Guyana
  9. Ditassa banksii - Rio Janeiro
  10. Ditassa bicolor - Minas Gerais
  11. Ditassa blanchetii - Brazil
  12. Ditassa bolivarensis - Bolívar in Venezuela
  13. Ditassa buntingii - Amazonas in Venezuela
  14. Ditassa capillaris - São Paulo, Bahia
  15. Ditassa carnevalii - Amazonas in Venezuela
  16. Ditassa caucana - Colombia
  17. Ditassa ciliata - Amazonas in Venezuela
  18. Ditassa cipoensis - Minas Gerais
  19. Ditassa colellae - Bolivar in Venezuela
  20. Ditassa conceptionis - Brazil
  21. Ditassa congesta - Brazil
  22. Ditassa cordeiroana - Minas Gerais
  23. Ditassa crassa - Peru
  24. Ditassa crassifolia - Brazil
  25. Ditassa dardanoi - Brazil
  26. Ditassa dolichoglossa - Bahia
  27. Ditassa duartei - Espírito Santo
  28. Ditassa duidae - Cerro Duida in Venezuela
  29. Ditassa edmundoi - Serra de S. Luiz de Purunã in Paraná
  30. Ditassa emmerichii - Brazil
  31. Ditassa endoleuca - Colombia, Ecuador
  32. Ditassa eximia - Brazil
  33. Ditassa farneyi - Brazil
  34. Ditassa fasciculata - Brazil
  35. Ditassa fiebrigii - Bolivia
  36. Ditassa foldatsii - Amazonas in Venezuela
  37. Ditassa fontellae - Brazil
  38. Ditassa franciscoi - Venezuela, Colombia
  39. Ditassa fulva - Brazil
  40. Ditassa gardneri - Brazil
  41. Ditassa gillespieae - Guyana
  42. Ditassa glaziovii - Brazil
  43. Ditassa gracilipes - Peru
  44. Ditassa gracilis - São Paulo
  45. Ditassa hastata - Brazil
  46. Ditassa hispida - Bahia
  47. Ditassa imbricata - Rio de Janeiro
  48. Ditassa insignis - Minas Gerais
  49. Ditassa itambensis - Minas Gerais
  50. Ditassa jahnii - Mérida in Venezuela
  51. Ditassa juliani - Amazonas in Venezuela
  52. Ditassa laevis - Brazil
  53. Ditassa lanceolata - Peru, Brazil
  54. Ditassa lenheirensis - Minas Gerais
  55. Ditassa leonii - Minas Gerais
  56. Ditassa liesneri - Amazonas in Venezuela
  57. Ditassa lindemanii - Suriname
  58. Ditassa linearis - Brazil
  59. Ditassa lisae - Lara in Venezuela
  60. Ditassa longicaulis - Brazil
  61. Ditassa longiloba - Colombia
  62. Ditassa longisepala - Brazil
  63. Ditassa macarenae - Sierra de la Macarena in Colombia
  64. Ditassa mandonii - Bolivia
  65. Ditassa maranhensis - Maranhão
  66. Ditassa maricaensis - Rio de Janeiro
  67. Ditassa mattogrossensis - Mato Grosso
  68. Ditassa megapotamica - Uruguay, S Brazil
  69. Ditassa mucronata - Morro de Villa Rica in Minas Gerais
  70. Ditassa multinervia - Amazonas in Venezuela
  71. Ditassa myrtilloides - Serra Moeda in Minas Gerais
  72. Ditassa nigrescens - Guyana
  73. Ditassa niruri - Brazil
  74. Ditassa nitida - Brazil
  75. Ditassa obcordata - Minas Gerais
  76. Ditassa oberdanii - Espírito Santo
  77. Ditassa obovata - Bolivar in Venezuela
  78. Ditassa obscura - Serra de Araxa in Paranaíba
  79. Ditassa oliva-estevae - Amazonas in Venezuela
  80. Ditassa ottohuberi - Amazonas in Venezuela
  81. Ditassa oxyphylla - Venezuela, N Brazil
  82. Ditassa paranensis - Paraná
  83. Ditassa pauciflora - Guyana, N Brazil
  84. Ditassa pedunculata - Minas Gerais
  85. Ditassa perijensis - Magdalena in Colombia
  86. Ditassa peruviana - Peru
  87. Ditassa poeppigii - Brazil
  88. Ditassa pohliana - Brazil
  89. Ditassa racemosa - Chuquisaca in Bolivia
  90. Ditassa ramosa - Brazil
  91. Ditassa retusa - Brazil
  92. Ditassa roraimensis - Guyana, SE Venezuela, N Brazil
  93. Ditassa rotundifolia - Bahia
  94. Ditassa salzmannii - Brazil
  95. Ditassa schlechteri - Bolivia
  96. Ditassa sillensis - N Venezuela
  97. Ditassa silveirae - Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais
  98. Ditassa sipapoana - Amazonas in Venezuela
  99. Ditassa sobradoi - Amazonas in Venezuela
  100. Ditassa subalpina - Bolivia
  101. Ditassa subulata - Margarita Island, Venezuelan West Indies
  102. Ditassa subumbellata - Rio de Janeiro
  103. Ditassa succedanea - Minas Gerais
  104. Ditassa sucrensis - Venezuela
  105. Ditassa surinamensis - Tafelberg in Suriname
  106. Ditassa tamayoi - Zulia in Venezuela
  107. Ditassa tassadioides - Sierra de Santa Cruz in Bolivia
  108. Ditassa taxifolia - Guyana
  109. Ditassa tomentosa - Rio de Janeiro
  110. Ditassa umbellata - Rio de Janeiro
  111. Ditassa velutina - Brazil
  112. Ditassa venamensis - Bolivar in Venezuela
  113. Ditassa verticillata - Amazonas in Venezuela
  114. Ditassa violascens - Cuzco in Peru
  115. Ditassa warmingii - Brazil
  116. Ditassa weberbaueri - Chachapoyas Province in Peru
  117. Ditassa xeroneura - Amazonas in Venezuela
formerly included

transferred to other genera (Blepharodon, Cynanchum, Metastelma, Minaria, Oxypetalum, Tassadia)

  1. D. abortiva now Minaria abortiva
  2. D. acerosa now Minaria acerosa
  3. D. angustifolia now Cynanchum morilloi
  4. D. anomala now Metastelma burchellii
  5. D. aristata now Tassadia aristata
  6. D. bifurcata now Minaria bifurcata
  7. D. blepharodontoides now Blepharodon glaucescens
  8. D. bonariensis now Cynanchum bonariense
  9. D. burchellii now Metastelma burchellii
  10. D. cordata now Minaria cordata
  11. D. cordata var. abortiva now Minaria abortiva
  12. D. decussata now Minaria decussata
  13. D. diamantinensis now Minaria diamantinensis
  14. D. ditassoides now Minaria ditassoides
  15. D. ericoides now Minaria acerosa
  16. D. glaucescens now Blepharodon glaucescens
  17. D. grazielae now Minaria grazielae
  18. D. hemipogonoides now Minaria hemipogonoides
  19. D. humilis now Oxypetalum humile
  20. D. inconspicua now Minaria inconspicua
  21. D. lourteigiae now Minaria lourteigiae
  22. D. magisteriana now Minaria magisteriana
  23. D. manicata now Blepharodon manicatum
  24. D. micromeria now Minaria micromeria
  25. D. monocoronata now Minaria monocoronata
  26. D. oblongifolia now Minaria abortiva
  27. D. parva now Minaria parva
  28. D. passerinoides Mart. not Decne. now Minaria decussata
  29. D. passerinoides Decne. not Mart. now Minaria cordata
  30. D. polygaloides now Minaria polygaloides
  31. D. refractifolia now Minaria refractifolia
  32. D. semirii now Minaria semirii
  33. D. virgata now Minaria cordata

References

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  1. ^ illustrations circa 1827 from Nova genera et species plantarum. Monachii [Munich] :Impensis Auctoris,1824-1829
  2. ^ Brown, Robert. 1810. On the Asclepiadeae 38.
  3. ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Martius, Carl (Karl) Friedrich Philipp von. 1885. Ditassa. Flora Brasiliensis 6(4): 237- 258