Biology:Melinia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants


Melinia
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Melinia

Decne.
Synonyms[1]

Brachylepis Hook. & Arn. 1835, illegitimate homonym, not C.A. Mey. ex Ledeb. 1829 nor Wight & Arn. 1834.

Melinia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1835. It was initially given the name Brachylepis, but this turned out to be an illegitimate homonym, meaning that someone else had already used the name for a different plant.[2][3][1] Melinia is native to South America.[4][5]

Species[6]
  1. Melinia eichleri (E. Fourn.) K. Schum. - Brazil
  2. Melinia peruviana Schltr. - Ayacucho in Peru
  3. Melinia volcanense Krapov. & S. Cáceres - Jujuy Province in NW Argentina
formerly included[6]

moved to other genera (Hemipogon, Metastelma, Oxypetalum, Philibertia, Widgrenia)


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Tropicos, genus Melinia Decne.
  2. Hooker, William Jackson & Arnott, George Arnott Walker. 1835. Brachylepis. Journal of Botany, being a second series of the Botanical Miscellany 1: 290–291 in Latin
  3. Decaisne, Joseph. 1844. Melinia. in Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 8: 588–589. in Latin
  4. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/. Retrieved 2015-08-20. . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  5. Pontiroli, A. 1983. Asclepiadaceae. 13(8): 116–175. In A. L. Cabrera (ed.) Flora de la Provincia de Jujuy: Republica Argentina. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Buenos Aires
  6. 6.0 6.1 The Plant List, genus Melinia

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