Lopezia

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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

See text.

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.

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

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]

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