Blepharidium

Blepharidium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Genus: Blepharidium
Standley
Type species
Blepharidium guatemalense
Standley
Species

Blepharidium guatemalense

Blepharidium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Central America.[1] Some authors recognize only one species in Blepharidium,[2] but others recognize two.[1] The type species for the genus is Blepharidium guatemalense.[3]

Blepharidium was named by Paul Standley in i918 in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.[4] [5] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words blepharitis or blepharidos, meaning "on an eyelid". The similar term, blepharis means "an eyelash".[6]

A cladistic analysis of morphological characters found Blepharidium to be closely related to Cosmibuena, Balmea, and Hillia,[7] but a molecular phylogenetic studiy placed it closer to Rondeletia.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
  2. ^ Blepharidium At: World Checklist of Rubiaceae At: Kew Gardens Website. (see External links below).
  3. ^ Blepharidium In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
  4. ^ Blepharidium in International Plant Names Index. (see External links below).
  5. ^ Paul C. Standley. 1918. Blepharidium page 59. In: "Blepharidium, a new genus of Rubiaceae from Guatemala". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 8:58-60. (see External links below).
  6. ^ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume I. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, USA. London, UK. ISBN 978-0-8493-2675-2 (vol. I). (see External links below).
  7. ^ Lennart Andersson. 1995. "Tribes and genera of the Cinchoneae complex (Rubiaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82(3):409-427.
  8. ^ Ulrika Manns and Birgitta Bremer. 2010. "Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(1):21-39. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.002

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