Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.[2]
Description
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
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
It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.[5]
Species
According to Kew, there are 28 species are recognized in the genus Lopezia in 2022:[5]
- Lopezia ciliatula Plitmann, P.H.Raven & Breedlove
- Lopezia clavata Brandegee
- Lopezia concinna P.H. Raven
- Lopezia conjugans Brandegee
- Lopezia cornuta S. Watson
- Lopezia coronata Andrews
- Lopezia galeottii Planch.
- Lopezia gentryi (Munz) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
- Lopezia gracilis S. Watson
- Lopezia grandiflora Zucc.
- Lopezia hirsuta Jacq.
- Lopezia integrifolia DC.
- Lopezia laciniata (Rose) M.E. Jones
- Lopezia langmaniae Miranda.[6] The species name langmaniae was given in honor of Ida Kaplan Langman.
- Lopezia longiflora Decne.
- Lopezia lopezioides (Hook. & Arn.) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
- Lopezia miniata Lag. ex DC.
- Lopezia miniata subsp. paniculata (Seem.) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
- Lopezia oaxacana Rose
- Lopezia ovata (Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove) Plitmann
- Lopezia pringlei Rose
- Lopezia racemosa Cav.
- Lopezia riesenbachia Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
- Lopezia semeiandra Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
- Lopezia sinaloensis Munz
- Lopezia smithii Rose
- Lopezia suffrutescens Munz
- Lopezia trichota Schltdl.
- Lopezia violacea Rose
Gallery
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L. coronata -
L. longiflora -
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L. paniculata -
L. racemosa
Notes
- ^ Pelozia is a taxonomic anagram of Lopezia.[1]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Lopezia Cav". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Lopezia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ Miranda, Faustino (1953). "Lopezia langmaniae". Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México. 24: 88.
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