Crusea
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| taxon = Crusea
| authority = Schltdl. & Cham.
| type_species = Crusea rubra (syn. of Crusea hispida)
| type_species_authority = (Jacq.) Schltdl. & Cham.
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Crusea (common name saucer flower)[http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=CRDI12 USDA plants profile, Crusea diversifolia] is a genus of angiosperms (flowering plants) in the family Rubiaceae.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/96173#page/168/mode/1up Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal & Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso. 1830. Linnaea 5(1): 165] The genus is found in the south-western United States (Arizona and New Mexico), Mexico, and Central America. A few species are naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico.Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Species
- Crusea andersoniorum Lorence – Oaxaca
- Crusea calcicola Greenm – San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Honduras
- Crusea calocephala DC. – widespread from Tamaulipas to Honduras
- Crusea coccinea DC.
- Crusea coccinea var. breviloba Loes. – from Sinaloa to Guatemala and Belize
- Crusea coccinea var. chiriquensis W.R.Anderson – Costa Rica and Panama
- Crusea coccinea var. coccinea – from Jalisco to Oaxaca
- Crusea coronata B.L.Rob. & Greenm. – from Sonora to Oaxaca
- Crusea diversifolia (Kunth) W.R.Anderson – widespread from Arizona and New Mexico to Guatemala
- Crusea hispida (Mill.) Rob.
- Crusea hispida var. grandiflora (Paul G.Wilson) W.R.Anderson – Guerrero, México State, Distrito Federal
- Crusea hispida var. hispida – widespread across much of Mexico and naturalized in Cuba
- Crusea longiflora (Roem. & Schult.) W.R.Anderson – widespread across much of Mexico and naturalized in Puerto Rico
- Crusea lucida Benth. – Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero
- Crusea megalocarpa (A.Gray) S.Watson – widespread across much of Mexico
- Crusea parviflora Hook. & Arn. – widespread across much of Mexico, south to Nicaragua
- Crusea psyllioides (Kunth) W.R.Anderson – widespread across much of Mexico
- Crusea pulcherrima Borhidi & Salas-Mor. – Oaxaca
- Crusea setosa (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl. & Steyerm. – widespread across much of Mexico, south to Nicaragua
- Crusea wrightii A.Gray
- Crusea wrightii var. angustifolia W.R.Anderson – central and southern Mexico
- Crusea wrightii var. wrightii – widespread across much of Mexico, north into Arizona
References
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External links
- [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Crusea Crusea in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae]
- [http://www.wnmu.edu/academic/nspages/gilaflora/crusea_diversifolia.html Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness, Western New Mexico University]
- [http://unibio.unam.mx/irekani/handle/123456789/21056?proyecto=Irekani Irekani, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20140502202000/http://it.gardening.eu/arc/piante/Alberature/Crusea-diversifolia-Kunth-W.A.-Anderson/18986/ Gardening Europe]
- [http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=26210 Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of Crusea wrightii var. angustifolia, collected in Guerrero]
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