vismia

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Vismia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae. Members of the genus are small trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical areas of Central America and South America.

Including the countries of Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela.

Like many members of the Hypericaceae, these plants contain xanthonoids.

The genus name of Vismia is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal.{{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 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Fl. Lusit. Bras. Spec. on page 51 in 1788.

Known species

Plants of the World Online accepts 48 species;

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References

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{{cite journal |last1=Hussain |first1=Hidayat |last2=Hussain |first2=Javid |last3=Al-Harrasi |first3=Ahmed |last4=Saleem |first4=Muhammad |last5=Green |first5=Ivan R. |last6=van Ree |first6=Teunis |last7=Ghulam |first7=Abbas |title=Chemistry and biology of genus Vismia |journal=Pharmaceutical Biology |date=11 September 2012 |volume=50 |issue=11 |pages=1448–1462 |doi=10.3109/13880209.2012.680972 |pmid=22881063 |doi-access= }}

{{cite web |title=Vismia Vand.|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:19867-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanical Gardens Kew |access-date=19 December 2018}}

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Category:Malpighiales genera

Category:Plants described in 1788

Category:Flora of Mexico

Category:Flora of Central America

Category:Flora of northern South America

Category:Flora of western South America

Category:Flora of Brazil

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