Harperocallis
Genus of flowering plants
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Harperocallis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Tofieldiaceae, native to Florida and northwestern South America. It was originally described as a monotypic genus, based on the Floridian H. flava, in 1968, but was expanded in 2013 to include ten South American species formerly placed in Isidrogalvia.
| Harperocallis | |
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| Flower of Harperocallis flava | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Tofieldiaceae |
| Genus: | Harperocallis McDaniel |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Isidrogalvia Ruiz & Pav. | |
Taxonomy
The genus was originally described in 1968, incorporating only the newly described type species, Harperocallis flava, an endemic of the Florida panhandle.[2] On the basis of molecular and morphological evidence, H. flava was shown to be derived from or sister to Isidrogalvia, then treated as a genus of ten species native to the Guianas and the northern Andes, and was transferred into that genus in 2011.[3] However, the original description of Isidrogalvia proved to include a European species previously used (under a different name) to typify Tofieldia, thus inadvertently rendering Isidrogalvia a later synonym of Tofieldia. After the rejection of a proposal to conserve the eleven species of Isidrogalvia with a new type,[4] Harperocallis was instead revived with a broader circumscription to include the eleven New World species previously treated as Isidrogalvia.[1]
- Species[1]
- H. duidae (Steyerm.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - S Venezuela
- H. falcata (Ruiz & Pav.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - Ecuador, Peru
- H. flava McDaniel - Florida Panhandle[5]
- H. longiflora (Rusby) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - Bolivia
- H. neblinae (Steyerm. ex L.M.Campb.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - S Venezuela
- H. paniculata (L.M.Campb.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - N Brazil
- H. penduliflora (L.M.Campb.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - S Venezuela
- H. robustior (Steyerm.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - N Venezuela
- H. schomburgkiana (Oliv.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - S Venezuela, N Brazil, Guyana
- H. sessiliflora (Hook.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - N Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
- H. sipapoensis (L.M.Campb.) L.M.Campb. & Dorr - S Venezuela