Hechtia

Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Hechtia

Hechtia guatemalensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Monocots
Clade:  | Commelinids
Order:  | Poales
Family:  | Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:  | Hechtioideae
Givnish
Genus:  | Hechtia
Klotzsch
Synonyms[1][2]

* Bakerantha L.B.Sm.
* Bakeria André 1889, illegitimate homonym, not Seem. 1864
* Niveophyllum Matuda

Hechtia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, and is the sole genus of the subfamily Hechtioideae, containing 75 species.[3][4] Its species are native to Mexico, Central America, and Texas .[2][5][6][7][8][9]

The genus is named for Julius Gottfried Conrad Hecht (1771–1837), German counselor to the King of Prussia.[10] Except for H. gayorum, the plants of this genus are dioecious.

## Species

* Hechtia aquamarina I.Ramírez & C.F.Jiménez \- Puebla
* Hechtia argentea Baker \- Querétaro
* Hechtia bracteata Mez \- Citlaltépetl (Puebla + Veracruz)
* Hechtia caerulea (Matuda) L.B.Sm. \- San Luis Potosí, México State, Guerrero
* Hechtia capituligera Mez \- San Luis Potosí
* Hechtia carlsoniae Burt-Utley & J.Utley \- Guerrero
* Hechtia caudata L.B.Sm. \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia caulescens López-Ferr., Espejo & Mart.-Correa \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia chichinautzensis Mart.-Correa, Espejo & López-Ferr. \- Morelos
* Hechtia colossa Mart.-Correa, Espejo & López-Ferr. \- Puebla, Oaxaca
* Hechtia complanata Burt-Utley \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia confusa L.B.Sm. \- Puebla, Oaxaca
* Hechtia conzattiana L.B.Sm. \- Puebla, Oaxaca
* Hechtia dichroantha Donnell Smith \- Guatemala, Honduras
* Hechtia edulis I.Ramírez, Espejo & López-Ferr. \- Chihuahua
* Hechtia elliptica L.B.Sm. \- Coahuila
* Hechtia epigyna Harms \- Tamaulipas, Hidalgo
* Hechtia fosteriana L.B.Sm. \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia fragilis Burt-Utley & J.Utley \- Puebla, Oaxaca
* Hechtia galeottii Mez \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia gayorum L.W.Lenz \- Baja California Sur
* Hechtia glabra Brandegee \- Veracruz
* Hechtia glauca Burt-Utley & J.Utley \- Michoacán
* Hechtia glomerata Zucc. \- from Texas to Guatemala
* Hechtia guatemalensis Mez \- Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua
* Hechtia gypsophila López-Ferr., Espejo & Hern.-Cárdenas \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia hintoniana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. \- México State, Michoacán
* Hechtia iltisii Burt-Utley & J.Utley \- Jalisco
* Hechtia isthmusiana Burt-Utley \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia ixtlanensis Burt-Utley \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia jaliscana L.B.Sm. \- Jalisco
* Hechtia laevis L.B.Sm. \- Colima
* Hechtia lanata L.B.Sm. \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia laxissima L.B.Sm. \- Michoacán
* Hechtia lepidophylla I.Ramírez \- Querétaro, Hidalgo
* Hechtia lundelliorum L.B.Sm. \- San Luis Potosí
* Hechtia lyman-smithii Burt-Utley & J.Utley \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia malvernii Gilmartin \- Honduras
* Hechtia marnier-lapostollei L.B.Sm. \- México State, Oaxaca
* Hechtia matudae L.B.Sm. \- Morelos
* Hechtia melanocarpa L.B.Sm. \- Guerrero
* Hechtia mexicana L.B.Sm. \- Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí
* Hechtia michoacana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. \- Michoacán
* Hechtia minuta Hern-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr. \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia montana Brandegee \- Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa
* Hechtia mooreana L.B.Smith \- Guerrero
* Hechtia myriantha Mez \- Veracruz
* Hechtia nuusaviorum Espejo & López-Ferrari \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia oaxacana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia pedicellata S.Watson \- Jalisco
* Hechtia perotensis I.Ramírez & Martínez-Correa \- Puebla
* Hechtia podantha Mez \- Coahuila, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla
* Hechtia pretiosa Espejo & López-Ferrari \- Guanajuato
* Hechtia pringlei B.L.Rob. & Greenm. \- Oaxaca
* Hechtia pueblensis Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mend. \- Puebla
* Hechtia pumila Burt-Utley & J. Utley \- Guerrero
* Hechtia purpusii Brandegee \- Veracruz
* Hechtia reflexa L.B.Sm. \- Michoacán, Guerrero
* Hechtia reticulata L.B.Sm. \- Colima
* Hechtia rosea E.Morren ex Baker \- Hidalgo, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas
* Hechtia roseana L.B.Sm. \- Puebla, Oaxaca
* Hechtia schottii Baker ex Hemsley \- Campeche, Yucatán
* Hechtia sphaeroblasta B.L.Rob. \- Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla
* Hechtia stenopetala Klotzsch \- Hidalgo, Veracruz
* Hechtia suaveolens E. Morren ex Mez \- home range unknown; probably extinct
* Hechtia subalata L.B.Smith \- Durango, Nayarit
* Hechtia texensis S.Watson \- Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Texas
* Hechtia tillandsioides (André) L.B.Sm. \- Hidalgo, México State
* Hechtia zamudioi Espejo, López-Ferrari & I.Ramírez \- Querétaro

## References

1. ↑ "Genus: Hecthia Klotzsch". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1996-09-17. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5444. Retrieved 2011-04-01.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. ↑ Givnish, Thomas J.; Barfuss, Michael H. J.; Van Ee, Benjamin; Riina, Ricarda; Schulte, Katharina; Horres, Ralf; Gonsiska, Philip A.; Jabaily, Rachel S. et al. (May 2011). "Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography in Bromeliaceae: Insights from an eight-locus plastid phylogeny" (in en). American Journal of Botany 98 (5): 872–895. doi:10.3732/ajb.1000059. PMID 21613186.
4. ↑ Gouda, E.J. & Butcher, D. (cont. updated) A List of Accepted Bromeliaceae Names [http://bromeliad.nl/bromNames/]. University Botanic Gardens, Utrecht (accessed: 20-12-2019).
5. ↑ Burt-Utley, K. & J. F. Utley. 1987. Contributions toward a revision of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae). Brittonia 39(1): 37–43.
6. ↑ Burt-Utley, K., J. F. Utley & A. J. García-Mendoza. 2011. Contributions toward a revision of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae, Pitcairnioideae). I. New and noteworthy species of Hechtia from Mexico. Phytoneuron 2011–59: 1–17
7. ↑ Smith, L.B. & R. J. Downs. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae), Part I. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 14(1): 1–660
8. ↑ Flora of North America, Hechtia Klotzsch, Allgemeine Gartenzeitung. 3: 401. 1835.
9. ↑ Espejo-Serna, Adolfo; López-Ferrari, Ana Rosa; Hernández-Cárdenas, Rodrigo Alejandro (2019-03-22). "Two new species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae, Hechtioideae) from Oaxaca, Mexico" (in en). Phytotaxa 397 (4): 280–290. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.397.4.2. ISSN 1179-3163. https://biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.397.4.2.
10. ↑ Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants (4 ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC.

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