Oplonia

Oplonia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 21 species native to western South America (Peru, Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina), the Caribbean, and Madagascar.[1]

## Species

21 species are accepted.[1]

* Oplonia acicularis (Sw.) Stearn
* Oplonia acuminata Stearn
* Oplonia acunae Borhidi
* Oplonia armata (Sw.) Stearn
* Oplonia cubensis Borhidi
* Oplonia grandiflora (Lindau) Stearn
* Oplonia hutchisonii Wassh.
* Oplonia jamaicensis (Lindau) Stearn
* Oplonia jujuyensis Wassh. & C.Ezcurra
* Oplonia linifolia (Benoist) Stearn
* Oplonia microphylla (Lam.) Stearn
* Oplonia minor (Benoist) Stearn
* Oplonia moana Borhidi
* Oplonia multigemma Borhidi
* Oplonia nannophylla (Urb.) Stearn
* Oplonia polyece (Stearn) Borhidi
* Oplonia puberula Stearn
* Oplonia purpurascens (Griseb.) Stearn
* Oplonia spinosa (Jacq.) Raf.
* Oplonia tetrasticha (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Stearn
* Oplonia vincoides (Lam.) Stearn

## References

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## External links

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* GBIF entry
* ITIS entry
* JSTOR Plant Science entries
* USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry
* USDA PLANTS entry
* Stearn, W. T. 1971. A survey of the tropical genera Oplonia and Psilanthele (Acanthaceae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 4:259–323.

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