Gaudichaudia (plant)

Gaudichaudia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malpighiaceae.[1]

Gaudichaudia
Pierre Jean François Turpin's (1775–1840) illustration of Gaudichaudia cynanchoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Malpighiaceae
Genus: Gaudichaudia
Kunth
Synonyms
  • Rosanthus Small
  • Tritomopterys Nied.

The type species is Gaudichaudia cynanchoides Kunth.[2]

It is found as a native in the countries of Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela.[1]

The genus name of Gaudichaudia is in honour of Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854), a French botanist.[3] It was first described and published in (F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth edited), Nov. Gen. Sp. Vol.5 on page 156 in 1822.[1]

Description

Mostly scandent (vine-like) or trailing shrubs, with opposite leaves which are entire (have a smooth edge) and are petiolate (have a leaf stalk). The calyx (sepals of a flower) has 8 or 10 glands. The petals are yellow and dentate (edges are teethed) and the fruit (or seed capsule) has 3 samaras (A dry, indehiscent fruit with its wall expanded into a wing).[4]

Known species

According to Kew;[1]

  • Gaudichaudia albida Schltdl. & Cham.
  • Gaudichaudia andersonii S.L.Jessup
  • Gaudichaudia chasei W.R.Anderson
  • Gaudichaudia congestiflora A.Juss.
  • Gaudichaudia cycloptera (Moc. & Sessé ex DC.) W.R.Anderson
  • Gaudichaudia cynanchoides Kunth
  • Gaudichaudia diandra (Nied.) Chodat
  • Gaudichaudia galeottiana (Nied.) Chodat
  • Gaudichaudia hexandra (Nied.) Chodat
  • Gaudichaudia implexa S.L.Jessup
  • Gaudichaudia intermixteca S.L.Jessup
  • Gaudichaudia karwinskiana A.Juss.
  • Gaudichaudia krusei W.R.Anderson
  • Gaudichaudia mcvaughii W.R.Anderson
  • Gaudichaudia mollis Benth.
  • Gaudichaudia palmeri S.Watson
  • Gaudichaudia subverticillata Rose
  • Gaudichaudia symplecta S.L.Jessup
  • Gaudichaudia synoptera S.L.Jessup
  • Gaudichaudia zygoptera S.L.Jessup

References
  1. "Gaudichaudia Kunth | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  2. Bonpland, Aimé; Humboldt, Alexander von; Kunth, Karl Sigismund (1821). "Nova genera et species plantarum :quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt /descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt Amat. Bonpland et Alex. de Humboldt ; ex schedis autographis Amati Bonplandi in ordinem digessit Carol. Sigismund. Kunth ..." Ex officina Christophori Plantini ... Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  3. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Paul Carpenter Standley Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 23, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico (1920) , p. 570, at Google Books
  • Images of Gaudichaudia albida Schltdl. & Cham.
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