Malpighia Plum.

de Almeida, Rafael F., de Morais, Isa L., Alves-Silva, Thais, Antonio-Domingues, Higor & Pellegrini, Marco O. O., 2024, A new classification system and taxonomic synopsis for Malpighiaceae (Malpighiales, Rosids) based on molecular phylogenetics, morphology, palynology, and chemistry, PhytoKeys 242, pp. 69-138 : 69-138

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/phytokeys.242.117469

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11252786

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/87636663-8455-5B20-B318-FF549B52ACA8

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scientific name

Malpighia Plum.
status

 

2.8. 9. Malpighia Plum. View in CoL ex L., Sp. Pl. 425. 1753.

Fig. 10 J – L View Figure 10

= Rudolphia Medik. , Malvenfam.: 111. 1787. Type species: Rudolphia edulis Medik. View in CoL (= Malpighia urens L. View in CoL subsp. urens).

Type species.

Malpighia glabra Plum. ex L.

Notes.

Malpighia comprises 110 currently accepted species (85 threatened species; Suppl. material 1) of treelets or shrubs endemic to rainforests and seasonally dry tropical forests from South America ( Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela) to Central ( Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Islands, and Windward Islands) and North America ( Mexico and United States of America; POWO 2024). For identification keys for all species of Malpighia , see the monographs by Vivaldi (1979) and Meyer (2000), the studies of González-Gutiérrez and Meyer (2019) for Cuba, and Pool (2023) for Mesoamerica.

L

Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, Leiden University branch

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Malpighiaceae

Loc

Malpighia Plum.

de Almeida, Rafael F., de Morais, Isa L., Alves-Silva, Thais, Antonio-Domingues, Higor & Pellegrini, Marco O. O. 2024
2024
Loc

Rudolphia

Rudolphia Medik. 1787: 111
1787