Hesperomeles
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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| image = Hesperomeles ferruginea (Pers) Benth..jpg
| image_caption = Hesperomeles ferruginea
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| taxon = Hesperomeles
| authority = Lindl.
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Hesperomeles is a genus of South American evergreen trees of the family Rosaceae that has sometimes been included along with Pyracantha in the genus Osteomeles.{{citation |chapter-url=http://192.104.39.83/Name/40024738?projectid=56 |chapter=Hesperomeles Lindl. |title=Flora of Panama}} However, Osteomeles notably have compound leaves, and recent molecular phylogenetics suggests that Hesperomeles is only distantly related to Osteomeles, and is instead sister to the Crataegus—Mespilus clade.{{citation |author1=Li, Q.-Y. |author2=Guo, W. |author3=Liao, W.-B. |author4=Macklin, J.A. |author5=Li, J.-H. |year=2012 |title=Generic limits of Pyrinae: Insights from nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences |journal=Botanical Studies |volume=53 |pages=151–164 |url=http://ejournal.sinica.edu.tw/bbas/content/2012/1/Bot531-14/Bot531-14.html }}
Species
Depending on the author, there are between 12{{Cite web|title = Tropicos {{!}} Name - Hesperomeles Lindl.|url = http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40024738|website = www.tropicos.org|accessdate = 2015-12-15}} and 20 species in the genus.{{citation |chapter-url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40024738?projectid=3 |title=Flora Mesoamericana |chapter=Hesperomeles Lindl. |author= F.R. Barrie |year=2015 |editor=Davidse, G. |editor2=M. Sousa Sánchez |editor3=S. Knapp |editor4=F. Chiang Cabrera |volume=Saururaceae a Zygophyllaceae}} According to Tropicos.org database, the following species are recognized:
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- Hesperomeles cordata
- Hesperomeles ferruginea
- Hesperomeles gayana
- Hesperomeles goudotiana
- Hesperomeles incerta
- Hesperomeles nitida
- Hesperomeles obtusifolia
- Hesperomeles pachyphylla
- Hesperomeles palcensis
- Hesperomeles personii
- Hesperomeles resinopunctata
- Hesperomeles weberbaueri
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References
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External links
- {{citation |chapter-url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=201&taxon_id=115243 |title=Árboles y arbustos de los Andes del Ecuador |chapter=Hesperomeles Lindley |first=Carmen Ulloa |last=Ulloa |first2=Peter Møller |last2=Jørgensen }}
- {{citation |url=http://www.plantsystematics.org/taxpage/0/genus/Hesperomeles.html |title=Plantsystematics.org image gallery |accessdate=13 October 2015}}
- {{citation |chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19764#page/409/mode/1up |title=Flora of Peru |chapter=Hesperomeles Lindl. |year=1938 |pages=1065–9 |first=J. Francis |last=MacBride |volume=13 |issue=2(3) |publisher=Field Museum of Natural History Botanical Series}}
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