Crusea
| Crusea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Rubioideae |
| Tribe: | Spermacoceae |
| Genus: | Crusea Schltdl. & Cham. |
| Type species | |
| Crusea rubra | |
Crusea (common name Saucer Flower)[1] is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family.[2] The genus is found in Arizona, New Mexico, Mexico, and Central America. A few species are naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico.[3]
Species
- Crusea andersoniorum Lorence - Oaxaca
- Crusea calcicola Greenm - San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Honduras
- Crusea calocephala DC. - widespread from Tamaulipas to Honduras
- Crusea coccinea DC.
- Crusea coronata B.L.Rob. & Greenm. - from Sonora to Oaxaca
- Crusea diversifolia (Kunth) W.R.Anderson - widespread from Arizona and New Mexico to Guatemala
- Crusea hispida (Mill.) Rob.
- Crusea hispida var. grandiflora (Paul G.Wilson) W.R.Anderson - Guerrero, México State, Distrito Federal
- Crusea hispida var. hispida - widespread across much of Mexico and naturalized in Cuba
- Crusea longiflora (Roem. & Schult.) W.R.Anderson - widespread across much of Mexico and naturalized in Puerto Rico
- Crusea lucida Benth. - Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero
- Crusea megalocarpa (A.Gray) S.Watson - widespread across much of Mexico
- Crusea parviflora Hook. & Arn. - widespread across much of Mexico, south to Nicaragua
- Crusea psyllioides (Kunth) W.R.Anderson - widespread across much of Mexico
- Crusea pulcherrima Borhidi & Salas-Mor. - Oaxaca
- Crusea setosa (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl. & Steyerm. - widespread across much of Mexico, south to Nicaragua
- Crusea wrightii A.Gray
References
- ↑ USDA plants profile, Crusea diversifolia
- ↑ Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal & Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso. 1830. Linnaea 5(1): 165
- ↑ Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
External links
- Crusea in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
- Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness, Western New Mexico University
- Irekani, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Gardening Europe
- Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of Crusea wrightii var. angustifolia, collected in Guerrero
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