Lopezia

Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.[2]

Lopezia
Lopezia miniata, flowering shrub.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Onagraceae
Subfamily: Onagroideae
Tribe: Lopezieae
Genus: Lopezia
Cav.
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Diplandra Hook. & Arn.
  • Enthomanthus Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
  • Jehlia Planch. ex Rose
  • Pelozia Rose [lower-alpha 1]
  • Pisaura Bonato
  • Pseudolopezia Rose
  • Riesenbachia C.Presl
  • Rudicularia Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
  • Semeiandra Hook. & Arn.

Description

Herbs or shrubs, mostly freely branched. Leaves petioled, alternate, or the lower opposite, simple. Flowers -solitary, small, pedicelled, in upper axils of sometimes much reduced leaves. Floral tube inconspicuous. Sepals 4, mostly red, narrow. Petals 4, dissimilar, white to rose, the 2 upper unguiculate, with none, one, or two glands at apex of claw; the 2 lower clawed and curved upward, glandless. Stamens 2, adnate to the style and connate with each other at the base, the posterior fertile, the anterior sterile, petaloid. Ovary 4-loculed; style short, filiform, with slightly enlarged and barely lobed stigma; ovules multiseriate, many. Capsule globose to clavate, coriaceous, 4-loculed and -valved. Seeds many, obovoid, granulate.[3]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Lopezia is in honour of Manuel López-Figueiras (1915-2012), who was a (Spanish-) Venezuelan botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), from the University of Havana (in Cuba).[4]

Distribution

It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.[5]

Species

According to Kew, there are 28 species are recognized in the genus Lopezia in 2022:[5]

  • Lopezia ciliatula Plitmann, P.H.Raven & Breedlove
  • Lopezia clavata Brandegee
  • Lopezia concinna P.H. Raven
  • Lopezia conjugans Brandegee
  • Lopezia cornuta S. Watson
  • Lopezia coronata Andrews
  • Lopezia galeottii Planch.
  • Lopezia gentryi (Munz) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
  • Lopezia gracilis S. Watson
  • Lopezia grandiflora Zucc.
  • Lopezia hirsuta Jacq.
  • Lopezia integrifolia DC.
  • Lopezia laciniata (Rose) M.E. Jones
  • Lopezia langmaniae Miranda.[6] The species name langmaniae was given in honor of Ida Kaplan Langman.
  • Lopezia longiflora Decne.
  • Lopezia lopezioides (Hook. & Arn.) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
  • Lopezia miniata Lag. ex DC.
    • Lopezia miniata subsp. paniculata (Seem.) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
  • Lopezia oaxacana Rose
  • Lopezia ovata (Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove) Plitmann
  • Lopezia pringlei Rose
  • Lopezia racemosa Cav.
  • Lopezia riesenbachia Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
  • Lopezia semeiandra Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
  • Lopezia sinaloensis Munz
  • Lopezia smithii Rose
  • Lopezia suffrutescens Munz
  • Lopezia trichota Schltdl.
  • Lopezia violacea Rose
Lopezia
  • L. coronata
    L. coronata
  • L. longiflora
    L. longiflora
  • L. miniata
    L. miniata
  • L. paniculata
    L. paniculata
  • L. racemosa
    L. racemosa

Notes
  1. Pelozia is a taxonomic anagram of Lopezia.[1]

References
  1. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A7. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5.
  2. Hoch, Peter C.; Crisci, Jorge V.; Tobe, Hiroshi (1993-02-01). "A cladistic analysis of the genus Lopezia (Onagraceae)". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 111 (2): 103–116. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1993.tb01893.x. ISSN 1095-8339.
  3. "Lopezia Cav". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. "Lopezia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  6. Miranda, Faustino (1953). "Lopezia langmaniae". Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México. 24: 88.
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