Lopezia

Lopezia
	Lopezia miniata, flowering shrub.
Scientific 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 ; Pisaura Bonato; Pseudolopezia Rose; Riesenbachia C.Presl; Rudicularia Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez; Semeiandra Hook. & Arn.;

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

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

Gallery

Lopezia

L. coronata
L. longiflora
L. miniata
L. paniculata
L. racemosa

Notes

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

References

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Lopezia Cav". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b "Lopezia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
^ Miranda, Faustino (1953). "Lopezia langmaniae". Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México. 24: 88.

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[2] Pelozia is a taxonomic anagram of Lopezia.^[1]

[Burkhardt2018-1] 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.

[3] 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.

[:0-4] "Lopezia Cav". www.worldfloraonline.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.

[5] 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.

[POWO-6] "Lopezia Cav. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 July 2022.

[7] Miranda, Faustino (1953). "Lopezia langmaniae". Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. México. 24: 88.

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