Gaya (plant)
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Gaya parviflora (8628471202).jpg
| image_caption = Gaya parviflora from Mendoza, Argentina,
| taxon = Gaya (plant)
| authority = Kunth
| type_species = Gaya hermannioides{{cite web|title=Taxon: Gaya hermannioides|url=https://www.cicy.mx/sitios/flora%20digital/ficha_virtual.php?especie=1751|website=Flora of the Yucatan Peninsula|access-date=14 September 2021|language=es}}
| type_species_authority = Kunth
| synonyms = {{species list
| Philippimalva | Kuntze
| Tetraptera | Phil.}}
}}
Gaya is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It has been classed in the Malvoideae subfamily and the Malveae tribe.{{cite journal |last1=Takeuchi |first1=Cátia |last2=Kano |first2=Cecília H. |last3=Tate |first3=Jennifer A. |last4=Esteves |first4=Gerleni L. |title=Molecular Phylogenetics and Character Evolution of Gaya and Related Genera (Malvoideae, Malvaceae) |journal=Systematic Botany |date=September 2018 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=676-688 |doi=10.1600/036364418X697391}}
It is native to Tropical America with its greatest diversity in Brazil (up to 14 species). It is also found in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Leeward Is., Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela.{{cite POWO|id=30020831-2|title=Gaya|access-date=14 September 2021}}
General description
Shrubs or herbs, with toothed leaves, flowers either yellowish or purplish, mainly solitary in the axils, sometimes racemose, with 8 carpels or more, membranaceous, bi-valvate and one seeded.Paul Carpenter Standley {{google books|9KM2AQAAMAAJ|Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 23, Trees and Shrubs of Mexico (1920)|page=759}}
Taxonomy
The genus name of Gaya is in honour of Jaques Étienne Gay (1786–1864), a Swiss-French botanist, civil servant, collector and taxonomist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}}
It was first described and published in (F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth; Editors), Nov. Gen. Sp. Vol.5 on page 266 in 1823.
Known species
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{{species list
|Gaya albiflora |Krapov.
|Gaya atiquipana |Krapov.
|Gaya aurea |A.St.-Hil.
|Gaya bordasii |Krapov.
|Gaya calyptrata |(Cav.) Kunth ex K.Schum.
|Gaya cardenasii |Krapov.
|Gaya cruziana |Krapov.
|Gaya dentata |Krapov.
|Gaya domingensis |Urb.
|Gaya endacantha |Hochr.
|Gaya gaudichaudiana |A.St.-Hil.
|Gaya gracilipes |K.Schum.
|Gaya grandiflora |Baker f.
|Gaya guerkeana |K.Schum.
|Gaya hermannioides |Kunth
|Gaya ibitipocana |Krapov.
|Gaya kelleri |Krapov.
|Gaya macrantha |Barb.Rodr.
|Gaya matutina |Krapov.
|Gaya meridensis |Krapov.
|Gaya meridionalis |Hassl.
|Gaya minutiflora |Rose
|Gaya mollendoensis |Krapov.
|Gaya monosperma |(K.Schum.) Krapov.
|Gaya mutisiana |Krapov.
|Gaya nutans |(L'Hér.) Sweet
|Gaya occidentalis |(L.) Sweet
|Gaya parviflora |(Phil.) Krapov.
|Gaya peruviana |Ulbr.
|Gaya pilocarpa |Krapov.
|Gaya pilosa |K.Schum.
|Gaya purpurea |Krapov.
|Gaya rubricaulis |Rusby
|Gaya scopulorum |Krapov.
|Gaya tarijensis |R.E.Fr.
|Gaya triflora |Hochr.
|Gaya weberbaueri |Ulbr.
|Gaya woodii |Krapov.
|Gaya xiquexiquensis |C.Takeuchi & G.L.Esteves
}}
References
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External links
- [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/230844074.pdf] BONPLANDIA 9 (1-2): 57-87. 1996, SINOPSIS DEL GENERO GAYA (MALVACEAE), por A. KRAPOVICKAS (In Spanish, descriptions of many species of Gaya)
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