Blepharidium

Blepharidium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Rondeletieae
Genus: Blepharidium
Standl.
Species: B. guatemalense
Binomial name
Blepharidium guatemalense
Standl.

Blepharidium is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. The genus contains only one species, viz. Blepharidium guatemalense, which is native to Guatemala, Honduras and southern Mexico (Chiapas, Campeche, Tabasco).[1] Older works might mention two species (viz. B. guatemalense and B. mexicanum).[2]

Systematics

Blepharidium was named by Paul Standley in 1918.[3] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words blepharitis or blepharidos, meaning "on an eyelid". The similar term, blepharis means "an eyelash".[4]

A cladistic analysis of morphological characters found Blepharidium to be closely related to Cosmibuena, Balmea, and Hillia,[5] but a molecular phylogenetic study placed it closer to Rondeletia.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Blepharidium in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved June 2014.
  2. ↑ Mabberley DJ (2008). Mabberley's Plant Book (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4.
  3. ↑ Standley, PC. (1918). "Blepharidium page 59. In: "Blepharidium, a new genus of Rubiaceae from Guatemala"". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 8: 58–60.
  4. ↑ Quattrocchi U (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names 1. Boca Raton, New York, Washington DC, London: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2675-2.
  5. ↑ Andersson L (1995). "Tribes and genera of the Cinchoneae complex (Rubiaceae)". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 82 (3): 409–427. doi:10.2307/2399891.
  6. ↑ Manns U, Bremer B (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. PMID 20382247.

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