Turnera Explained

Turnera is a genus of flowering plants in the passionflower family, Passifloraceae. It contains more than 100 species native to tropical and subtropical America. The name honours English naturalist William Turner (1508–1568).[1] It was previously placed in the family Turneraceae.

Species

The following species are currently recognized:[2]

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z

Notes on the number of floral morphs

1,2,3 denote the number of floral morphs (1 = homostylous, 2 = distylous, 3 = distylous with intermediate morph)[3] [4] ? Denotes uncertain annotations. Those unannotated are missing data.

Formerly placed in the genus

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gledhill, D. . The Names of Plants . 4 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-521-86645-3 . 2008 . 391.
  2. Web site: Turnera Plum. ex L. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . 2022-11-25 . Plants of the World Online . en.
  3. Rocha . Lamarck . Ribeiro . Patrícia Luz . Endress . Peter K. . Rapini . Alessandro . 2019 . A brainstorm on the systematics of Turnera (Turneraceae, Malpighiales) caused by insights from molecular phylogenetics and morphological evolution . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . en . 137 . 44–63 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.04.015. 30999036 . free . 2019MolPE.137...44R .
  4. Shore . Joel S. . Arbo . Maria M. . Fernández . Aveliano . 2006 . Breeding system variation, genetics and evolution in the Turneraceae . New Phytologist . en . 171 . 3 . 539–551 . 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01807.x . 16866957 . 0028-646X. free . 11336/41821 . free .
  5. Web site: GRIN Species Records of Turnera . Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture . 2011-01-29 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924075538/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12496 . 2015-09-24 .