Echites

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Echites
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Echites umbellatus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Apocynoideae
Tribe:
Genus: Echites
P.Browne
Synonyms[1]
  • Allotoonia J.F.Morales & J.K.Williams
  • Echithes Thunb.

Echites is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1756. It is primarily native to Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and the US State of Florida.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species

Over 500 names have been published for species, subspecies, and varieties within Echites, but most have been relegated to synonymy or moved to other genera. The following are currently accepted[1]

  1. Jacq. - Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands
  2. Lippold - Cuba
  3. Lippold - Cuba
  4. J.F.Morales - Costa Rica
  5. J.F.Morales - Panama
  6. J.F.Morales - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
  7. Woodson - Chiapas, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
  8. Standl. - Chiapas, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
  9. Echites umbellatus Jacq. - Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Honduras, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Bahamas, Florida, Turks & Caicos Islands, Colombian islands in the Western Caribbean
  10. Monach. - Michoacán, Guerrero, Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
  11. Millsp. ex Standl. - Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Jalisco, Guerrero, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2009. Cucurbitaceae a Polemoniaceae. 4(1): i–xvi, 1–855. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México.
  3. ^ Morales, F. J. 1997. A reevaluation of Echites and Prestonia sect. Coalitae (Apocynaeae). Brittonia 49(3): 328–336.
  4. ^ Morales, J. F. 2009. La familia Apocynaceae (Apocynoideae, Rauvolfioideae) en Guatemala. Darwiniana 47(1): 140–184.
  5. ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Echites umbellatus
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