Gustavia (genus)
Gustavia | |
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Gustavia superba[1] | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Lecythidaceae |
Genus: | Gustavia L. |
Synonyms[2] | |
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Gustavia is a genus of flowering plants of Lecythidaceae family described by Linnaeus in 1775.[3][4] It is native to tropical Central America andSouth America.[2] Many of the species are threatened; some are critically endangered[5] Gustavia superba, though, is actually abundant in re-growing secondary forests. It grows in northern South America, from Panama south through the Andes as far as Ecuador, and along the Caribbean coast and in the Amazon basin.[5]
- species[2]
- Gustavia acuminata - S Venezuela, Roraima
- Gustavia angustifolia - Colombia, Ecuador
- Gustavia augusta - Colombia to Amapá and Bolivia
- Gustavia brachycarpa - Costa Rica, Panama
- Gustavia coriacea - V Amazonas
- Gustavia dodsonii - Ecuador
- Gustavia dubia - Colombia, Panama
- Gustavia elliptica - N Brazil
- Gustavia erythrocarpa - Pará
- Gustavia excelsa - Colombia
- Gustavia flagellata - N Venezuela
- Gustavia foliosa - Colombia, Ecuador
- Gustavia fosteri - Panama
- Gustavia gentryi - Colombia
- Gustavia gigantophylla - E Venezuela, Guyana
- Gustavia gracillima - Colombia
- Gustavia gracillipes - Colombia
- Gustavia grandibracteata - Colombia, Panama
- Gustavia hexapetala - Colombia to Amapá and Bolivia
- Gustavia inakuama - Peru
- Gustavia latifolia - Colombia
- Gustavia longepetiolata - Pará
- Gustavia longifolia - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, N Brazil
- Gustavia longifuniculata - Colombia
- Gustavia marcarenensis - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela
- Gustavia monocaulis - Colombia, Panama
- Gustavia nana - Colombia, Panama
- Gustavia occidentalis - Valle del Cauca
- Gustavia parviflora - Venezuela
- Gustavia petiolata - Colombia
- Gustavia poepiggiana - Colombia to Guyana and Bolivia
- Gustavia pubescens - Ecuador
- Gustavia pulchra - S Venezuela, N Brazil
- Gustavia romeroi - Colombia
- Gustavia santanderiensis - Colombia
- Gustavia serrata - Ecuador
- Gustavia sessilis - Colombia
- Gustavia speciosa - Colombia, Ecuador
- Gustavia superba - Colombia, Panama, Ecuador
- Gustavia tejerae - Zulia
- Gustavia terminaliflora - N Peru
- Gustavia verticillata - Colombia, Panama
References
- ↑ illustration circa 1880 from William Botting Hemsley (1843-1924) - Biologia Centrali-Americana vol. 5 Botany. Plates tabl. 22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1775. Plantae Surinamenses 12, 17, 18 in Latin
- ↑ Tropicos Gustavia L.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Prance, G.T. & Mori, S.A. (1979). Lecythidaceae. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 21(I):