Cascabela

Cascabela thevetioides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gentianales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Rauvolfioideae
Tribus: Plumerieae
Subtribus: Thevetiinae
Genus: Cascabela
Species: C. balsaensis – C. gaumeri – C. ovata – C. pinifolia – C. thevetia – C. thevetioides

Name

Cascabela Raf., Sylva Tellur.: 162 (1838)

• Type species: Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold, Feddes Repert. 91: 52 (1980)
  

Note: This genus can often be found in synonymy with Thevetia L. (1758) (Endress et al., 2014 & Williams & Stutzman, 2008), but c.f. Alvarado-Cárdenas & Ochoterena (2007), Alvarado-Cárdenas et al. (2017) and see Govaerts et al. (2017), as there is no consensus this page is a taxonomic opinion.

References

• Rafinesque, C.S. 1838. Sylva Telluriana 162.
• Alvarado-Cárdenas, L.O. & Ochoterena, H. 2007. A phylogenetic analysis of the Cascabela–Thevetia species complex (Plumerieae, Apocynaceae) based on morphology. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94(2): 298-323. DOI: 10.3417/0026-6493(2007)94[298:APAOTC]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Alvarado-Cárdenas, L.O., Villaseñor, J.L., López-Mata, L., Cadena, J. & Ortiz, E. 2017. Systematics, distribution and conservation of Cascabela (Apocynaceae: Rauvolfioideae: Plumerieae) in Mexico. Plant Systematics and Evolution 303(3): 337-369. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-016-1375-6 Reference page. 
• Endress, M.E., Liede-Schumann, S. & Meve, U. 2014. An updated classification for Apocynaceae. Phytotaxa 159(3): 175–194. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.159.3.2 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Govaerts, R. et al. 2017. Cascabela in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Oct. 9. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2017. Cascabela. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 9 2017.
• Williams, J.K. & Stutzman, J.K. 2008. Chromosome number of Thevetia ahouai (Apocynaceae: Rauvolfoidae: Plumerieae) with discussion on the generic boundaries of Thevetia. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 2(1): 489–493. JSTOR BHL Reference page. 

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