''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
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(in
Cuba
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).
Distribution
It is found in
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
,
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
,
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
,
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
, Mexico and Panamá.
Species
According to Kew, there are 28 species are recognized in the genus ''Lopezia'' in 2022:
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* '' Lopezia ciliatula'' Plitmann, P.H.Raven & Breedlove
* '' Lopezia clavata'' Brandegee
* '' Lopezia concinna'' P.H. Raven
* '' Lopezia conjugans'' Brandegee
* '' Lopezia cornuta'' S. Watson
* '' Lopezia coronata'' Andrews
* '' Lopezia galeottii'' Planch.
* '' Lopezia gentryi'' (Munz) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
* '' Lopezia gracilis'' S. Watson
* '' Lopezia grandiflora'' Zucc.
* '' Lopezia hirsuta'' Jacq.
* '' Lopezia integrifolia'' DC.
* '' Lopezia laciniata'' (Rose) M.E. Jones
* '' Lopezia langmaniae'' Miranda.]Ida Kaplan Langman
Ida Kaplan Langman was a Russian Empire-born, American botanist. She made two long expeditions in Mexico from 1939 to 1941 and from 1948 to 1949. She is best known as the author of ''A Selected Guide to the Literature on the Flowering Plants of ...
.
* '' Lopezia longiflora'' Decne.
* '' Lopezia lopezioides'' (Hook. & Arn.) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
* '' Lopezia miniata'' Lag. ex DC.
** '' Lopezia miniata subsp. paniculata'' (Seem.) Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
* '' Lopezia oaxacana'' Rose
* '' Lopezia ovata'' (Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove) Plitmann
* '' Lopezia pringlei'' Rose
* '' Lopezia racemosa'' Cav.
* '' Lopezia riesenbachia'' Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
* '' Lopezia semeiandra'' Plitmann, P.H. Raven & Breedlove
* '' Lopezia sinaloensis'' Munz
* '' Lopezia smithii'' Rose
* '' Lopezia suffrutescens'' Munz
* '' Lopezia trichota'' Schltdl.
* '' Lopezia violacea'' Rose
Gallery
Notes
References
Onagraceae
Onagraceae genera
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Central America
Taxa named by Antonio José Cavanilles
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