Lopezia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants belonging to the evening primroses and fuchsias family}}

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|image_caption = Lopezia miniata, flowering shrub.

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|taxon = Lopezia

|authority = Cav.

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Diplandra Hook. & Arn.
Enthomanthus Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
Jehlia Planch. ex Rose
Pelozia Rose {{efn|Pelozia is a taxonomic anagram of Lopezia.{{Cite book |last=Burkhardt |first=Lotte |title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée |date=2018-06-06 |publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin |page=A7 |isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 |language=de |doi=10.3372/epolist2018 }}}}
Pisaura Bonato
Pseudolopezia Rose
Riesenbachia C.Presl
Rudicularia Moc. & Sessé ex Ramírez
Semeiandra Hook. & Arn.

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Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.{{Cite journal|last1=Hoch|first1=Peter C.|last2=Crisci|first2=Jorge V.|last3=Tobe|first3=Hiroshi|date=1993-02-01|title=A cladistic analysis of the genus Lopezia (Onagraceae)|journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society|language=en|volume=111|issue=2|pages=103–116|doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1993.tb01893.x|issn=1095-8339}}

Description

Herbs or shrubs, mostly freely branched. Leaves petioled, alternate, or the lower opposite, simple. Flowers -solitary, small, pedicelled, in upper axils of sometimes much reduced leaves. Floral tube inconspicuous. Sepals 4, mostly red, narrow. Petals 4, dissimilar, white to rose, the 2 upper unguiculate, with none, one, or two glands at apex of claw; the 2 lower clawed and curved upward, glandless. Stamens 2, adnate to the style and connate with each other at the base, the posterior fertile, the anterior sterile, petaloid. Ovary 4-loculed; style short, filiform, with slightly enlarged and barely lobed stigma; ovules multiseriate, many. Capsule globose to clavate, coriaceous, 4-loculed and -valved. Seeds many, obovoid, granulate.{{Cite web |title=Lopezia Cav. |url=http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-4000022179 |access-date=2022-03-22 |website=www.worldfloraonline.org}}

Taxonomy

The genus name of Lopezia is in honour of Manuel López-Figueiras (1915-2012), who was a (Spanish-) Venezuelan botanist (Mycology and Lichenology), from the University of Havana (in Cuba).{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

Distribution

It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.{{cite web |title=Lopezia Cav. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28511-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=7 July 2022 |language=en}}