Oplonia
{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Oplonia spinosa - Berlin Botanical Garden - IMG 8733.JPG
|image_caption = Oplonia spinosa
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Oplonia
|authority = Raf. (1838)
|synonyms =
- Anthacanthus {{small|Nees (1847)}}
- Crateola {{small|Raf. (1838)}}
- Forsythiopsis {{small|Baker (1883)}}
- Hesperanthemum {{small|Kuntze (1891)}}
|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:772-1 Oplonia Raf.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
}}
Oplonia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 21 species native to western South America (Peru, Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina), the Caribbean, and Madagascar.
Species
- Oplonia acicularis {{small|(Sw.) Stearn}}
- Oplonia acuminata {{small|Stearn}}
- Oplonia acunae {{small|Borhidi}}
- Oplonia armata {{small|(Sw.) Stearn}}
- Oplonia cubensis {{small|Borhidi}}
- Oplonia grandiflora {{small|(Lindau) Stearn}}
- Oplonia hutchisonii {{small|Wassh.}}
- Oplonia jamaicensis {{small|(Lindau) Stearn}}
- Oplonia jujuyensis {{small|Wassh. & C.Ezcurra}}
- Oplonia linifolia {{small|(Benoist) Stearn}}
- Oplonia microphylla {{small|(Lam.) Stearn}}
- Oplonia minor {{small|(Benoist) Stearn}}
- Oplonia moana {{small|Borhidi}}
- Oplonia multigemma {{small|Borhidi}}
- Oplonia nannophylla {{small|(Urb.) Stearn}}
- Oplonia polyece {{small|(Stearn) Borhidi}}
- Oplonia puberula {{small|Stearn}}
- Oplonia purpurascens {{small|(Griseb.) Stearn}}
- Oplonia spinosa {{small|(Jacq.) Raf.}}
- Oplonia tetrasticha {{small|(C.Wright ex Griseb.) Stearn}}
- Oplonia vincoides {{small|(Lam.) Stearn}}
References
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External links
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{{Wikispecies}}
- [http://data.gbif.org/species/13197277 GBIF entry]
- [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=34368 ITIS entry]
- [http://plants.jstor.org/action/doBrowse?sa=api&sa=lapi&st=147210&execbr=&sls= JSTOR Plant Science entries]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20121006194603/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?8509 USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry]
- [https://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=display&classid=OPLON USDA PLANTS entry]
- Stearn, W. T. 1971. A survey of the tropical genera Oplonia and Psilanthele (Acanthaceae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 4:259–323.
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Category:Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
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