Rhigospira

Rhigospira
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Rhigospira
Miers
Binomial name
Rhigospira quadrangularis
(Müll.Arg.) Miers
Synonyms[1]
  • Ambelania quadrangularis Müll.Arg.
  • Hancornia macrophylla Spruce ex Müll.Arg.

Rhigospira is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1849. The genus contains only one known species, Rhigospira quadrangularis, native to northwestern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, NW Brazil).[1][2]

formerly placed in the genus[1]
  • Rhigospira paucifolia (Müll.Arg.) Miers = Macoubea guianensis Aubl.
  • Rhigospira reticulata (A.DC.) Miers = Macoubea guianensis Aubl.
  • Rhigospira sinuosa Miers = Macoubea guianensis Aubl.
  • Rhigospira sprucei (Müll.Arg.) Miers = Macoubea sprucei (Müll.Arg.) Markgr.
  • Rhigospira ternstroemiacea (Müll.Arg.) Miers = Neocouma ternstroemiacea (Müll.Arg.) Pierre
  • Rhigospira venulosa Miers = Spongiosperma macrophyllum (Müll.Arg.) Zarucchi

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.


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