Echites

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

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, 2nd 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

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