Orthosia (plant)
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Genus of flowering plants
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Apocynaceae |
| Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
| Tribe: | Asclepiadeae |
| Genus: | Orthosia Decne. |
Orthosia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1844.[1]
55 species as of May, 2025 accepted at Kew's Plants of the World:[2][3]
- Orthosia angustifolia (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Mexico (Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas)
- Orthosia boliviana Liede & Meve - Bolivia
- Orthosia bonplandiana (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Colombia
- Orthosia calycina (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru
- Orthosia cardozoi (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Venezuela
- Orthosia cassythoides (Suess.) Morillo - Venezuela
- Orthosia congesta (Vell.) Decne. - Brazil
- Orthosia conradii (Schult.) Liede & Meve - Mexico (Michoacán)
- Orthosia cynanchoides W.D. Stevens - Mexico (Chiapas)
- Orthosia dusenii (Malme) Fontella - Brazil
- Orthosia eichleri E.Fourn. - Brazil
- Orthosia ellemanniae (Morillo) Liede & Meve - S. Ecuador to Peru
- Orthosia extra-axillaris W.D. Stevens - Costa Rica
- Orthosia florida (Vell.) Liede & Meve - N. Venezuela, E. & S. Brazil and NE. Argentina
- Orthosia glaberrima (Woodson) W.D. Stevens - Panama, Costa Rica
- Orthosia goyderiana Liede & Meve - Bolivia
- Orthosia guilleminiana (Decne.) Liede & Meve - Brazil
- Orthosia henriqueana (Silveira) Liede & Meve - Brazil (Minas Gerais)
- Orthosia itatiaiensis Malme - Brail (Rio de Janeiro)
- Orthosia jaliscoensis Liede & Meve - Mexico (Colima, Jalisco)
- Orthosia leivae Liede & Meve - Ecuador to Peru
- Orthosia leptocarpa (Rusby) Liede & Meve - NE. Colombia to Venezuela
- Orthosia loandensis Fontella & Valente - Paraná
- Orthosia meridensis (Morillo) Liede & Meve - NW. Venezuela
- Orthosia mexicana (S.Watson) Liede & Meve - Mexico
- Orthosia micrantha Liede & Meve - Venezuela
- Orthosia misera (L.O.Williams) W.D.Stevens -- Mexico (Chiapas) to Honduras
- Orthosia myriantha (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru (Huanuco) to Bolivia
- Orthosia nicaraguensis Liede & Meve - Nicaragua
- Orthosia nubicola (Morillo) Liede & Meve - Venezuela
- Orthosia pallida (Rusby) Liede & Meve - NE. Colombia to NW. Venezuela
- Orthosia paranaensis Liede & Meve - Brazil (Paraná)
- Orthosia parviflora (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve - Rio de Janeiro
- Orthosia pearcei (Rusby) Liede & Meve - Bolivia
- Orthosia peruviana (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru (Junín, Pasco)
- Orthosia pietrangelii (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Venezuela (Téchira)
- Orthosia pubescens (Greenm.) Liede & Meve - Central Mexico
- Orthosia ramosa W.D. Stevens - Honduras
- Orthosia rariflora (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Peru (Puno) to W. Bolivia
- Orthosia retinaculata (Schltr.) Liede & Meve - Bolivia to NW. Argentina
- Orthosia rubens (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens - Guatemala
- Orthosia scoparia (Nutt.) Liede & Meve - Florida, Georgia, South Carolina[4]
- Orthosia selloana (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve - Brazil
- Orthosia sepium (Decne.) Liede & Meve - Mexico (E. Oaxaca)
- Orthosia smaragdina W.D. Stevens - Guatemala
- Orthosia stannardii (Morillo) Liede & Meve - Venezuela (Amazonas)
- Orthosia stenophylla Schltr - Central & S. Colombia
- Orthosia stipitata W.D. Stevens - Mexico (Chiapas)
- Orthosia subulata (Vell.) Liede & Meve -SE. & S. Brazil to Argentina (Misiones)
- Orthosia teodormeyeri Liede & Meve - NW Argentina
- Orthosia tomentosa (E.Fourn.) Malme - SE. & S. Brazil to Argentina (Misiones)
- Orthosia umbrosa Decne. - Rio de Janeiro
- Orthosia urceolata E.Fourn. - Brazil
- Orthosia virgata (Poir.) E. Fourn. - Argentina
- Orthosia woodii Meve & Liede - Bolivia
- Partial list of formerly included taxa:
- O. acuminata, syn of Matelea acuminata
- O. bahiensis, syn of Ditassa capillaris
- O. cardozoi, syn of Cynanchum cardozoi
- O. ecuadorensis, syn of Cynanchum densiflorum
- O. ellemannii, syn of Cynanchum ellemannii
- O. grandis, syn of Jobinia grandis
- O. kunthii, syn of Cynanchum kunthii
- O. meridensis, syn of Cynanchum meridense
- O. misera, syn of Metastelma miserum
- O. oblongata, syn of Matelea oblongata
- O. serpyllifolia, syn of Vincetoxicum serpyllifolium
- O. stannardii, syn of Cynanchum stannardii
- O. stenophylla, syn of Cynanchum trianae
- O. suberosa, syn of Metastelma parviflorum
- O. ventensis, syn of Cynanchum ventensis
References
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- ↑ Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de. 1844. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 8: 526–527
- ↑ Plants of the World Online
- ↑ Liede-Schumann, Sigrid; Meve, Ulrich (11 June 2024), Toward a Revision of the Genus Orthosia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae: Asclepiadeae), Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, doi:10.3417/2024795
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Cynanchum scoparium
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