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Lopezia

Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.[2]

Lopezia
Lopezia miniata, flowering shrub.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Subfamily: Onagroideae
Tribe: Lopezieae
Genus: Lopezia
Cav.
Species

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Synonyms
  • Diplandra Hook. & Arn.
  • Enthomanthus Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
  • Jehlia Planch. ex Rose
  • Pelozia Rose [a]
  • Pisaura Bonato
  • Pseudolopezia Rose
  • Riesenbachia C.Presl
  • Rudicularia Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
  • Semeiandra Hook. & Arn.

Description

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Herbs or shrubs, mostly freely branched. Leaves petioled, alternate, or the lower opposite, simple. Flowers -solitary, small, pedicelled, in upper axils of sometimes much reduced leaves. Floral tube inconspicuous. Sepals 4, mostly red, narrow. Petals 4, dissimilar, white to rose, the 2 upper unguiculate, with none, one, or two glands at apex of claw; the 2 lower clawed and curved upward, glandless. Stamens 2, adnate to the style and connate with each other at the base, the posterior fertile, the anterior sterile, petaloid. Ovary 4-loculed; style short, filiform, with slightly enlarged and barely lobed stigma; ovules multiseriate, many. Capsule globose to clavate, coriaceous, 4-loculed and -valved. Seeds many, obovoid, granulate.[3]

Taxonomy

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The genus name of Lopezia is in honour of Manuel López-Figueiras (1915-2012), who was a (Spanish-) Venezuelan botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), from the University of Havana (in Cuba).[4]

Distribution

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It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.[5]

Species

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According to Kew, there are 28 species are recognized in the genus Lopezia in 2022:[5]

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Lopezia
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    L. coronata
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    L. longiflora
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    L. miniata
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    L. paniculata
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    L. racemosa

Notes

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  1. ^ Pelozia is a taxonomic anagram of Lopezia.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A7. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5.
  2. ^ Hoch, Peter C.; Crisci, Jorge V.; Tobe, Hiroshi (1993-02-01). "A cladistic analysis of the genus Lopezia (Onagraceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 111 (2): 103–116. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1993.tb01893.x. ISSN 1095-8339.
  3. ^ "Lopezia Cav". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Lopezia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  6. ^ Miranda, Faustino (1953). "Lopezia langmaniae". Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México. 24: 88.
 

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