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Echites P. Browne
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Echites
Bejucos o lianas volubles, con abundante látex lechoso o acuoso. Hojas opuestas; láminas simples; pecíolos con glándulas o sin glándulas; estípulas glandulosas intrapeciolares e interpeciolares. Flores bisexuales, en cimas axilares, alargadas o compactas. Cáliz campanulado, con 5 sépalos alargados, cada uno de ellos con un apéndice glanduloso en la base de la superficie interna; corola hipocrateriforme, no anilladas en la garganta; estambres 5, insertos, las anteras concrescentes alrededor del estigma, los filamentos unidos a la corola; ovario súpero, con 5 nectarios glandulosos en la base; carpelos 2, libres en la base, unidos en el ápice por un estilo en común. Frutos de 2 folículos cilíndricos; semillas numerosas, con un mechón de largos pelos en el ápice. Género neotropical con aproximadamente 35 especies.
Echites
Twining vines or lianas, with abundant milky or watery latex. Leaves opposite; blades simple; petioles with or without glands; stipules glandular, intrapetiolar and interpetiolar. Flowers bisexual, in axillary cymes, elongate or compact. Calyx campanulate, of 5 elongate sepals, each with a glandular appendage at the base on the inner surface; corolla hypocrateriform, not ringed in the throat; stamens 5, inserted, the anthers concrescent around the stigma, the filaments united to the corolla; ovary superior, with 5 glandular nectarines at the base; carpels 2, free at the base, united at the apex by a style in common. Fruits of 2 cylindrical follicles; seeds numerous, with a tuft of long hairs at the apex. A neotropical genus of approximately 35 species.
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]
- Echites agglutinatus Jacq. - Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands
- Echites brevipedunculatus Lippold - Cuba
- Echites cajalbanicus Lippold - Cuba
- Echites candelarianus J.F.Morales - Costa Rica
- Echites darienensis J.F.Morales - Panama
- Echites puntarenensis J.F.Morales - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
- Echites turbinatus Woodson - Chiapas, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
- Echites tuxtlensis Standl. - Chiapas, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
- 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
- Echites woodsonianus Monach. - Michoacán, Guerrero, Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
- Echites yucatanensis Millsp. ex Standl. - Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Jalisco, Guerrero, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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.
- ^ Morales, F. J. 1997. A reevaluation of Echites and Prestonia sect. Coalitae (Apocynaeae). Brittonia 49(3): 328–336.
- ^ Morales, J. F. 2009. La familia Apocynaceae (Apocynoideae, Rauvolfioideae) en Guatemala. Darwiniana 47(1): 140–184.
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, Echites umbellatus
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