Blepharocalyx Explained

Blepharocalyx is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae first described as a genus in 1854.^{[1] [2]} It is native to South America and the West Indies.^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Accepted species^[3]

1. Blepharocalyx cruckshanksii (Hook. & Arn.) Nied. - Chile
2. Blepharocalyx eggersii (Kiaerskou) L.R.Landrum - Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil
3. Blepharocalyx myriophyllus Mattos - Minas Gerais
4. Blepharocalyx salicifolius (Kunth.) O.Berg - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, N Argentina

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/114321#page/352/mode/1up Berg, Otto Karl. 1854. Linnaea 27: 348, 412-415
2. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40028231 Tropicos, Blepharocalyx O.Berg
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=22379 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Blepharocalyx
4. Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
5. Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil Web site: Archived copy . 2015-08-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ . 2015-09-06 . . Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
6. Landrum, L. R. 1986. Campomanesia, Pimenta, Blepharocalyx, Legrandia, Acca, Myrrhinium, and Luma (Myrtaceae). Flora Neotropica, Monograph 45: 1–178.
7. Landrum, L. R. & M. L. Kawasaki. 1997. The genera of Myrtaceae in Brazil: an illustrated synoptic treatment and identification keys. Brittonia 49(4): 508–536.
8. McVaugh, R. 1989. Myrtaceae. In: Dicotyledoneae - Part 2. Flora of the Lesser Antilles, Leeward and Windward Islands 5: 463–532.