Biology:Gaya (plant)

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Gaya
Gaya parviflora (8628471202).jpg
Gaya parviflora from Mendoza, Argentina,
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Gaya
Kunth
Type species
Gaya hermannioides[1]
Kunth
Synonyms[2]
  • Philippimalva Kuntze
  • Phil. Tetraptera

Gaya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It has been classed in the Malvoideae subfamily and the Malveae tribe.[3]

It is native to Tropical America with its greatest diversity in Brazil (up to 14 species). It is also found in the countries of Argentina , Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.[2]

General description

Shrubs or herbs, with toothed leaves, flowers either yellowish or purplish, mainly solitary in the axils, sometimes racemose, with 8 carpels or more, membranaceous, bi-valvate and one seeded.[4]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Gaya is in honour of Jaques Étienne Gay (1786–1864), a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist.[5] It was first described and published in (F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth; Editors), Nov. Gen. Sp. Vol.5 on page 266 in 1823.[2]

Known species

Illustration of Gaya macrantha (1901)

According to Kew;[2]

  • Gaya ibitipocana Krapov.
  • Krapov. Krapov.
  • Gaya kelleri Krapov.
  • Gaya macrantha Gaya calyptrata
  • Barb.Rodr. Gaya matutina
  • Krapov. Gaya meridensis
  • (Cav.) Kunth ex K.Schum. Krapov.
  • Gaya meridionalis Hassl.
  • Gaya minutiflora Gaya cardenasii
  • Rose Gaya mollendoensis
  • Krapov. Gaya atiquipana
  • Krapov. (K.Schum.) Krapov.
  • Gaya mutisiana Krapov.
  • Gaya nutans Gaya cruziana
  • (L'Hér.) Sweet Gaya occidentalis
  • (L.) Sweet Gaya parviflora
  • Krapov. (Phil.) Krapov.
  • Gaya peruviana Ulbr.
  • Gaya pilocarpa Gaya dentata
  • Krapov. Gaya pilosa
  • K.Schum. Gaya albiflora
  • Krapov. Krapov.
  • Krapov. Gaya rubricaulis
  • Rusby Gaya domingensis
  • Krapov. Gaya tarijensis
  • R.E.Fr. Urb.
  • Hochr. Gaya weberbaueri
  • Ulbr. Gaya endacantha
  • Krapov. Gaya xiquexiquensis
  • Gaya aurea Hochr.
  • Gaya gaudichaudiana A.St.-Hil.
  • Gaya gracilipes A.St.-Hil.
  • K.Schum. Gaya grandiflora
  • Baker f. Gaya guerkeana
  • Gaya bordasii K.Schum.
  • C.Takeuchi & G.L.Esteves Gaya hermannioides
  • Gaya woodii Gaya triflora
  • Gaya scopulorum Kunth
  • Gaya purpurea Gaya monosperma

References

  1. ↑ "Taxon: Gaya hermannioides" (in es). https://www.cicy.mx/sitios/flora%20digital/ficha_virtual.php?especie=1751. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Gaya" (in en). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/30020831-2. 
  3. ↑ Takeuchi, Cátia; Kano, Cecília H.; Tate, Jennifer A.; Esteves, Gerleni L. (September 2018). "Molecular Phylogenetics and Character Evolution of Gaya and Related Genera (Malvoideae, Malvaceae)". Systematic Botany 43 (3): 676-688. doi:10.1600/036364418X697391. 
  4. ↑ Paul Carpenter Standley Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 23, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico (1920), p. 759, at Google Books
  5. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018) (in German) (pdf). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition. Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018. Retrieved 1 January 2021. 

External links

  • [1] BONPLANDIA 9 (1-2): 57-87. 1996, SINOPSIS DEL GENERO GAYA (MALVACEAE), por A. KRAPOVICKAS (In Spanish, descriptions of many species of Gaya)

Wikidata ☰ Q4039302 entry



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