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Blepharocalyx

Blepharocalyx is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae first described as a genus in 1854. It is native to South America and the West Indies.Accepted speciesBlepharocalyx cruckshanksii (Hook. & Arn.) Nied. – Chile Blepharocalyx eggersii (Kiaerskou) L.R.Landrum – Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil Blepharocalyx myriophyllus Mattos – Minas Gerais Blepharocalyx salicifolius (Kunth.) O.Berg – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, N Argentina

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Blepharocalyx
Blepharocalyx gigantea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Blepharocalyx
O.Berg
Type species
Blepharocalyx acuminatissimus (syn of B. salicifolius)1
Synonyms4
  • Heteromyrtus Blume, illegitimate nam
  • Temu O.Berg
  • Marlieriopsis Kiaersk.

Blepharocalyx is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae first described as a genus in 1854.53 It is native to South America and the West Indies.4678910

Accepted species4
  1. Blepharocalyx cruckshanksii (Hook. & Arn.) Nied. – Chile
  2. Blepharocalyx eggersii (Kiaerskou) L.R.Landrum – Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil
  3. Blepharocalyx myriophyllus Mattos – Minas Gerais
  4. Blepharocalyx salicifolius (Kunth.) O.Berg – Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, N Argentina
References

References

  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Blepharocalyx acuminatissimus (Miq.) O.Berg
  2. lectotype designated by McVaugh, Taxon 5: 138 (1956)
  3. Tropicos, Blepharocalyx O.Berg
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Blepharocalyx
  5. Berg, Otto Karl. 1854. Linnaea 27: 348, 412-415 in Latin
  6. Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  7. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  8. Landrum, L. R. 1986. Campomanesia, Pimenta, Blepharocalyx, Legrandia, Acca, Myrrhinium, and Luma (Myrtaceae). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 45: 1–178.
  9. Landrum, L. R. & M. L. Kawasaki. 1997. The genera of Myrtaceae in Brazil: an illustrated synoptic treatment and identification keys. Brittonia 49(4): 508–536.
  10. McVaugh, R. 1989. Myrtaceae. In: Dicotyledoneae - Part 2. Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands 5: 463–532.