Echites umbellatus

Taxonavigation

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

Echites umbellatus Jacq., 1760

Basionym
- Tabernaemontana echites L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 945 (1759).
Homotypic
- Echites echites (L.) Britton ex Small, Fl. Miami: 147 (1913), not validly publ.
- Echites umbellatus var. typicus Woodson, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 23: 224 (1936), not validly publ.
Heterotypic
- Apocynum obliquum Mill., Gard. Dict. ed. 8: n.º 8 (1768).
- Echites littoreus Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 3: 212 (1819).
- Echites crassipes A.Rich. in R.de la Sagra, Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 91 (1850).
- Echites umbellatus var. longiflorus Griseb., Cat. Pl. Cub.: 172 (1866).
- Echites longiflorus (Griseb.) Miers, Apocyn. S. Amer.: 194 (1878), nom. illeg.
- Echites obliquus (Mill.) Miers, Apocyn. S. Amer.: 193 (1878).
- Echites ovatus Miers, Apocyn. S. Amer.: 192 (1878), nom. illeg.
- Rhodocalyx crassipes (A.Rich.) Miers, Apocyn. S. Amer.: 140 (1878).
- Echites umbellatus var. crassipes (A.Rich.) M.Gómez, Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 274 (1895).
- Echites umbellatus subsp. crassipes (A.Rich.) Borhidi & O.Muñiz, Bot. Közlem. 62: 26 (1975).

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
- Regional: Southeastern USA
  - Florida.
- Regional: Mexico
  - Mexico (Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatan),
Continental: Southern America
- Regional: Central America
  - Belize, Honduras, ?Panama
- Regional: Caribean
  - Bahamas, Turks & Caicos Isl., Cayman Isl., Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles (Barbuda)
- Regional: Northern South America
  - Colombia (San Andrs, Providencia y Santa Catalina)

Hassler, M. 2018. Echites umbellatus. 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 Sep 20. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Echites umbellatus in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sep 20. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Echites umbellatus. Published online. Accessed: Sep 20 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Echites umbellatus in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sep 20.
Tropicos.org 2018. Echites umbellatus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 20 Sep 2018.

English: Devil's potato

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