Lopezia


Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.

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.

Taxonomy

The genus name of Lopezia is in honour of Manuel López-Figueiras, who was a Venezuelan botanist, from the University of Havana.

Distribution

It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panamá.

Species

According to Kew, there are 28 species are recognized in the genus Lopezia in 2022:Lopezia ciliatula Plitmann, P.H.Raven & BreedloveLopezia clavata BrandegeeLopezia concinna P.H. RavenLopezia conjugans BrandegeeLopezia cornuta S. WatsonLopezia coronata AndrewsLopezia galeottii Planch.Lopezia gentryi Plitmann, P.H. Raven & BreedloveLopezia gracilis S. WatsonLopezia grandiflora Zucc.Lopezia hirsuta Jacq.Lopezia integrifolia DC.Lopezia laciniata M.E. JonesLopezia langmaniae Miranda. The species name langmaniae was given in honor of Ida Kaplan Langman.Lopezia longiflora Decne.Lopezia lopezioides Plitmann, P.H. Raven & BreedloveLopezia miniata Lag. ex DC.
  • * Lopezia miniata subsp. paniculata Plitmann, P.H. Raven & BreedloveLopezia oaxacana RoseLopezia ovata PlitmannLopezia pringlei RoseLopezia racemosa Cav.Lopezia riesenbachia Plitmann, P.H. Raven & BreedloveLopezia semeiandra Plitmann, P.H. Raven & BreedloveLopezia sinaloensis MunzLopezia smithii RoseLopezia suffrutescens MunzLopezia trichota Schltdl.Lopezia violacea Rose