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Genus of flowering plants belonging to the evening primroses and fuchsias family
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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
  • 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.

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.

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).

Distribution

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

Species

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

Gallery

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.

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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Lopezia
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