''Neea'' is a genus of
plants
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars f ...
in family
Nyctaginaceae from the
Caribbean
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region,
Central and
South America
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. Members of the genus are commonly called ''Nia'', ''Neea'', or ''saltwood''.
The genus was named by botanists
José Pavón and
Hipólito Ruiz Hipólito, Hipolito or Hypólito is a masculine given name and surname related to Hippolyte (name), Hippolyte. People so named include:
Given name
* Hipolito Arenas (1907–1995), Negro league baseball player
* Hipólito or Hippolyte Bouchard (17 ...
in honor of
Luis Née, a botanist on the
Malaspina Expedition.
[JSTOR Global Plants][Parish registers. Le Perray-en-Yvelines. Archives départementales, Yvelines, France.]
It was first described and published in Fl. Peruv. Prodr. on page 52 in 1794.
It is native to Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, the southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Venezuela and Venezuelan Antilles.
Species
88 species are currently accepted.
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References
External links
Plant Illustrations -- Neea
Nyctaginaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxa described in 1794
Flora of the Neotropical realm
Taxa named by José Antonio Pavón Jiménez
Taxa named by Hipólito Ruiz López
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