Desfontainia splendens

Taxonavigation

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

Desfontainia splendens Bonpl. in F.W.H.A.von Humboldt & A.J.A.Bonpland, Pl. Aequinoct. 1: 157 (1807).

Homotypic
- Linkia splendens (Bonpl.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl., Suppl. 3: 449 (1814).
Heterotypic
- Linkia peruviana Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 219 (1805).
- Desfontainia parvifolia D.Don, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 1831(July-Sept.): 275 (1831).
- Desfontainia spinosa var. parvifolia (D.Don) Hook., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 1: t. 33 (1837).
- Desfontainia acutangula Dunal in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 13(1): 676 (1852).
- Desfontainia obovata Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 40: 312 (1908).
- Desfontainia pulchra Moldenke, Phytologia 2: 216 (1947).
- Desfontainia steyermarkii Moldenke, Phytologia 2: 217 (1947).
- Desfontainia costaricensis Woodson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47: 73 (1960).
- Desfontainia plowmanii R.E.Schult., Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 65: 316 (1989).
- Desfontainia spinosa var. acutangula (Dunal) R.E.Schult., Revista Acad. Colomb. Ci. Exact. 65: 318 (1989).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
- Regional: Northern South America
  - Colombia (Antioquia, Cauca, Cundinamarca, Huila, Nario, Putumayo, Quindo, Risaralda), Venezuela
- Regional: Central America
  - Costa Rica, Panama
- Regional: Western South America
  - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia (La Paz)

Bonpland, A.J.A. in Alexandri de Humboldt et Amati Bonpland, 1807 ("1808"). Plantae Aequinoctiales...Paris 1: 157.

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Desfontainia splendens in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 23. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Desfontainia splendens. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 24. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Desfontainia splendens. Published online. Accessed: October 24 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Desfontainia splendens. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 24 October 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Desfontainia splendens in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

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