Thespesia populnea

Thespesia populnea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Malvales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids II Ordo: Malvales

Familia: Malvaceae
Subfamilia: Malvoideae
Tribus: Gossypieae
Genus: Thespesia
Species: Thespesia populnea

Name

Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa, Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 9: 290(–291), t. 8, fig. 1. 1807.

Synonymy

• Basionym
  • Hibiscus populneus L., Sp. Pl. 2: 694. 1753.

• Homotypic
  • Parita populnea (L.) Scop., Intr. Hist. Nat.: 282. 1777, comb. inval.
  • Malvaviscus populneus (L.) Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2(2): 253, t. 135, fig. 3. 1791.
  • Hibiscus populifolius Salisb., Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 383. 1796, nom. illeg. superfl. (as Populifolius) – non Hibiscus populifolius (Benth.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 69. 1891, nom. illeg. hom.
  • Thespesia populnea var. typica Domin, Biblioth. Bot. 22(89⁵): 965. 1928, nom. inval.
  • Bupariti populnea (L.) Rothm., Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 53(1): 6. 1944.

• Heterotypic
  • Hibiscus baccifer G.Forst., Fl. Ins. Austr.: 48. 1786. (as H. bacciferus)
  • Thespesia populnea var. guadalupensis DC., Prodr. 1: 456. 1824. (as β. Guadalupensis)
  • Thespesia macrophylla Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 73(–74). 1825.
  • Hibiscus macrophyllus (Blume) Oken, Allg. Naturgesch. 3(2): 1223. 1841, nom. illeg. hom. – non Hibiscus macrophyllus Roxb. ex Hornem., Hort. Bot. Hafn. Suppl.: 149. 1819. – nec Hibiscus macrophyllus Roxb., Hort. Bengal.: 51. 1814, nom. nud.
  • Hibiscus litoreus J.Presl, Wsobecny Rostl. 1: 140. 1846, nom. nov.
    • Typus: as for Thespesia macrophylla.
  • Hibiscus blumei Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 69. 1891, nom. illeg. superfl. (as H. Blumei)
    • Typus: as for Thespesia macrophylla.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Africa West Tropical Africa Benin, Ghana, Senegal, Togo. Western Indian Ocean Aldabra, Mauritius, Seychelles. Asia-Temperate China China Southeast, Hainan. Eastern Asia Nansei-shoto, Taiwan. Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent India, Maldives, Sri Lanka. Indo-China Andaman Is., Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Malesia Borneo, Cocos (Keeling) Is., Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi. Papuasia Bismarck Archipelago, New Guinea, Solomon Is. Australasia Australia Queensland. Pacific Southwestern Pacific Fiji, Gilbert Is., Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Phoenix Is., Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis-Futuna Is. South-Central Pacific Cook Is., Marquesas, Pitcairn Is., Society Is., Tuamotu, Tubuai Is. Northwestern Pacific Caroline Is., Marianas, Wake I. North-Central Pacific Hawaii. Northern America Mexico Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest. Southern America Central America Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Caribbean Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. Northern South America Venezuela. Western South America Colombia. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Blume, C.L. 1825. Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië. 2de Stuk. Pp. 47–109. Ter Lands Drukkerij, Batavia. BHL Reference page. 
• De Candolle, A.P. 1824. Ordo XXIV. Malvaceae. Pp. 429–474 in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta, Pars 1, Sistens Thalamiflorarum ordines LIV. Treuttel et Würtz, Parisiis [Paris]. BHL Reference page. 
• Forster, G. 1786. Florulae insularum australium prodromus. 8+103 pp. Typis Joann. Christian. Dieterich, Gottingae [Göttingen]. BHL Hathitrust Reference page. 
• Gaertner, J. 1790–1792 ["1791"]. De fructibus et seminibus plantarum. Volumen alterum, continens seminum centurias quinque posteriores cum tabulis aeneis CI. LII + 520 pp., tt. 80–180. Typis Guilielmi Henrici Schrammii, Tubingae [Tübingen]. BHL Reference page. 
• Kuntze, O. 1891. Revisio generum plantarum vascularium omnium atque cellularium multarum secundum leges nomenclaturae internationales cum enumeratione plantarum exoticarum in itinere mundi collectarum. Pars I. Pp. I–CLV, 1–374. Arthur Felix, Leipzig [etc.] BHL Reference page. 
• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Tomus II. Pp. 561–1200, [1–30, index], [1, err.]. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm]. BHL Reference page. 
• Oken, L. 1841. Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände. Dritten Bandes zweyte Abtheilung oder Botanik, zweyten Bandes zweyte Abtheilung. Stamm- und Blüthenpflanzen. Pp. 703–1448. Hoffmann’sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart. BHL Reference page. 
• Rothmaler, W. 1944. Nomina generica neglecta 1753–1763. Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 53: 1–37. DOI: 10.1002/fedr.19440530102 Reference page. 
• Salisbury, R.A. 1796. Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium. VIII + 422 pp. Londini [London]. BHL Reference page. 
• Scopoli, I.A. 1777. Introductio ad historiam naturalem sistens genera lapidum, plantarum, et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. 540 pp. Apud Wolfgangum Gerle, Pragae [Prague]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Areces-Berazain, F. & Ackerman, J.D. 2016. Phylogenetics, delimitation and historical biogeography of the pantropical tree genus Thespesia (Malvaceae, Gossypieae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181: 171–198. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12414 Reference page. 
• Dorr, L.J. 2012. Malvaceae. In Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T., Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 496–529. BHL Reference page. 
• Fosberg, F.R. & Sachet, M.-H. 1972. Thespesia populnea (L.) Solander ex Correa and Thespesia populneoides (Roxburgh) Kosteletsky (Malvaceae). Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 7: 1–13. BHL DOI: 10.5479/si.0081024X.7 Reference page. 
• Fryxell, P.A. 1988. Malvaceae of Mexico. Systematic Botany Monographs 25: 1–522. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Fryxell, P. 2007. Malvaceae. Pp. 313–373 in Hammel, B.E., Grayum, M.H., Herrera, C. & Zamora, N. (eds.), Manual de plantas de Costa Rica, Vol. VI, Dicotiledóneas (Haloragaceae–Phytolaccaceae). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 978-1-930723-60-3. Reference page. 
• Merrill, E.D. 1950. Unlisted technical plant names in the published works of L. Oken (1841) and J. S. Presl (1846). Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 31(3): 264–287. JSTOR BHL Reference page. 

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2018. Thespesia populnea. Published online. Accessed: 06 April 2018.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Thespesia populnea.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Thespesia populnea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2018-04-06.
• Hassler, M. 2018. Thespesia populnea. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2018 June 22. Reference page. 

• Tropicos.org 2018. Thespesia populnea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 April 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Flora Mesoamericana: Thespesia populnea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 April 2018.
• Thespesia populnea in Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Accessed: 14 April 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia): Thespesia populnea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 April 2018.
• Tropicos.org: Bolivia Catalogue: Thespesia populnea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 April 2018.
• African Plants Database (version 3.4.0). Thespesia populnea. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Accessed: 06 April 2018.

Vernacular names

বাংলা: পরশপিপুল
Deutsch: Portiabaum
English: Portia tree
suomi: Polynesianmilopuu
मराठी: भेंड
Nederlands: Strandpopulier
svenska: Milohibiskus
தமிழ்: பூவரசன்
ไทย: โพทะเล

Note:

By some authors, Thespesia populneoides is included in Thespesia populnea.

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