Vesalea

Vesalea floribunda

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Caprifoliaceae
Subfamilia: Linnaeoideae
Genus: Vesalea
Species: V. coriacea – V. floribunda – V. grandifolia – V. mexicana – V. occidentalis – V. subcoriacea

Name

Vesalea M.Martens & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(1): 242. (1844)

• Type species: Vesalea floribunda M.Martens & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11 1(242). (1844)

Synonyms

• Homotypic
  • Abelia group Vesalea (M. Martens & Galeotti) Zabel
  • Abelia sect. Vesalea (M. Martens & Galeotti) Fukuoka
  • Abelia subsect. Vesalea (M. Martens & Galeotti) Rehder
    

Note: This genus can be subsumed into an expanded Abelia on morphology, but is maintained as a segregate on the grounds of phylogeny and disjunct biogeography by Wang et al. (2015).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Northern America Regional: Mexico Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Martens, M. & Galeotti, H.G. 1844. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles 11(1): 241.

Additional references

• Wang, H.-F., Landrein, S., Dong, W.-P., Nie, Z.-L., Kondo, K., Funamoto, T., Wen, J. & Zhou, S.-L. 2015. Molecular phylogeny and biogeographic diversification of Linnaeoideae (Caprifoliaceae s.l.) disjunctly distributed in Eurasia, North America and Mexico. PLoS ONE 10(3, e0116485): 1–26. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116485 Reference page. 

Links

• Hassler, M. 2019. Vesalea. 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 Aug. 16. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2019. Vesalea. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 16 2019.

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