Hedyosmum Explained
Hedyosmum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Chloranthaceae. There are about 40 to 45 species. They are distributed in Central and South America and the West Indies, and one species also occurs in southeastern Asia.[1] They are mostly dioecious, except for H. nutans and H. brenesii which are exclusively monoecious, and H. scaberrimum and H. costaricense with both monoecious and dioecious individuals.[2]
Species
There are 45 accepted species:
- Hedyosmum angustifolium – southwestern Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
- Hedyosmum anisodorum – Ecuador and Peru
- Hedyosmum arborescens – Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Leeward Islands, and Windward Islands
- Hedyosmum bonplandianum – Honduras to Colombia and Ecuador
- Hedyosmum brasiliense – Venezuela, Brazil, and Paraguay
- Hedyosmum brenesii – Central America
- Hedyosmum burgerianum – Panama
- Hedyosmum colombianum – Colombia
- Hedyosmum correanum – Panama
- Hedyosmum costaricense – Costa Rica and Panama
- Hedyosmum crenatum – Colombia and Venezuela
- Hedyosmum cuatrecazanum – Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
- Hedyosmum cumbalense – Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- Hedyosmum dombeyanum – Peru and Bolivia
- Hedyosmum domingense – Hispaniola
- Hedyosmum gentryi – Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela
- Hedyosmum goudotianum – Nicaragua to Venezuela and Peru
- Hedyosmum huascari – Peru
- Hedyosmum intermedium – southern Venezuela
- Hedyosmum lechleri – Peru and western Bolivia
- Hedyosmum luteynii – Colombia and Ecuador
- Hedyosmum maximum – Bolivia
- Hedyosmum mexicanum – Mexico to northwestern Colombia
- Hedyosmum narinoense – Colombia and Ecuador
- Hedyosmum neblinae – Venezuela and northern Brazil
- Hedyosmum nutans – Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica
- Hedyosmum orientale – Southern China, Vietnam, Borneo, Sulawesi, and Sumatra
- Hedyosmum parvifolium – Colombia and northwestern Venezuela
- Hedyosmum peruvianum – Peru
- Hedyosmum pseudoandromeda – Venezuela
- Hedyosmum pungens – Colombia
- Hedyosmum purpurascens – Ecuador
- Hedyosmum racemosum – northern South America
- Hedyosmum scaberrimum – Nicaragua to Colombia and Ecuador
- Hedyosmum scabrum – southern Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
- Hedyosmum spectabile – Ecuador and Peru
- Hedyosmum sprucei – southern Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
- Hedyosmum steinii – Colombia
- Hedyosmum strigosum – Colombia
- Hedyosmum subintegrum – Cuba
- Hedyosmum tepuiense – southern Venezuela and western Guyana
- Hedyosmum translucidum – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and northwestern Venezuela
- Hedyosmum uniflorum – Ecuador
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Notes and References
- Antonelli, A., & Sanmartin, I. (2011). Mass extinction, gradual cooling, or rapid radiation? Reconstructing the spatiotemporal evolution of the ancient angiosperm genus Hedyosmum (Chloranthaceae) using empirical and simulated approaches. Systematic Biology, 60(5), 596-615.
- 4393804. Chloranthaceae: Hedyosmum. Todzia. Carol A.. Flora Neotropica. 1988. 48. 1–138.
