Echites

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: Apocynoideae
Tribus: Echiteae
Subtribus: Echitinae
Genus: Echites
Species: E. agglutinatus – E. asperoglottis – E. brevipedunculatus – E. cajalbanicus – E. candelarianus – E. darienensis – E. panduratus – E. puntarenensis – E. speciosissimus – E. turbinatus – E. tuxtlensis – E. umbellatus – E. woodsonianus – E. yucutanensis

Name

Echites P.Browne Civ. Nat. Hist. Jamaica 182. 1756.

Type species: Echites umbellatus Jacq. Enum. Syst. Pl. 13. 1760, as "umbellata"
Lectotype: Tabernaemontana echites L., vide Britton et Millspaugh (1920)

Notes: Melbourne Code Art. 62.4: Generic names ending -ites are treated as masculine, irrespective of the gender assigned to them by the original author.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
- Echithes Thunb., Fl. Cap., ed. 1a, 2: 150. 1818, orth. var.
- Fernaldia Woodson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 19: 48. 1932.
- Allotoonia J.F.Morales & J.K.Williams, Sida 21: 135. 2004.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Northern America
- Southeastern U.S.A.
  - Florida.
- Mexico
  - Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southwest, Mexico Southeast.
Southern America
- Central America
  - Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.
- Caribbean
  - Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Islands.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Browne, P. 1756. The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts 182.
Britton, N.L. & Millspaugh, C.F. 1920. Bahama Fl. 336. 26.
Morales, J.F. 2009. Estudios en las Apocynaceae neotropicales XXXIX: revisión de las Apocynoideae y Rauvolfioideae de Honduras. Anales del Jardin Botánico de Madrid 66: 217–262.
Morales, J.F. & Williams, J.K. 2004. Allotoonia, a new neotropical genus of Apocynaceae based on a subgeneric segregate of Echites. Sida 21: 133–158.
Morales, J.F., Endress, M.E. & Liede-Schumann, S. 2017. Sex, drugs and pupusas: Disentangling relationships in Echiteae (Apocynaceae). Taxon 66(3): 623–644. DOI: 10.12705/663.7 ResearchGate Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2017. Echites. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 14 Aug. 2017.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Echites in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2009 Dec 23.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2017. Echites in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Aug. 14. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Echites. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 14 2017.

Vernacular names

English: Devils potato