Monteverdia

Monteverdia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae.

Monteverdia
Monteverdia macrocarpa seen from below in Tarapoto, Peru.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Rosids
Order:
Celastrales
Family:
Celastraceae
Genus:
Monteverdia

A.Rich., 1845
Synonyms

Moya Griseb., 1874

In a taxonomic review, Leonardo Biral et al. (2017) in Systematic Botany 42 (4), reclassified 123 species of Maytenus now placed in the genus Monteverdia.[1]

Selected species

Some of the 123 species are:

  • Monteverdia buxifolia A.Rich., 1845
  • Monteverdia eggersii (Loes.) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia harrisii (Krug & Urb.) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia laevis (Reissek) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia macrocarpa (Ruiz & Pav.) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia manabiensis (Loes.) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia matudae (Lundell) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia microcarpa (Fawc. & Rendle) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia multicostata Cornejo & Biral, 2021 [2]
  • Monteverdia pittieriana (Steyerm.) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia ponceana (Britt.) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia robusta (Reissek) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia spinosa ((Griseb.) Lourteig & O'Donell) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia stipitata (Lundell) Biral, 2017
  • Monteverdia zakii Biral & Cornejo, 2021 [2]

References
  1. Biral, Leonardo; Simmons, Mark P.; Smidt, Eric C.; Tembrock, Luke R.; Bolson, Mônica; Archer, Robert H.; Lombardi, Julio A. (December 18, 2017). "Systematics of New World Maytenus (Celastraceae) and a New Delimitation of the Genus". Systematic Botany. 42 (4): 680–693. doi:10.1600/036364417X696456. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 53121214.
  2. Biral, Leonardo; Cornejo, Xavier (2021-01-08). "Two new species of Monteverdia (Celastraceae) from Ecuador". Phytotaxa. 479 (2): 183–190. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.479.2.4.

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