Monteverdia

Genus of flowering plants

Monteverdia

Monteverdia macrocarpa seen from below in Tarapoto, Peru.
Scientific classification
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Plantae

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Angiosperms

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Eudicots

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Rosids

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Celastrales

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Celastraceae

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Monteverdia

A.Rich., 1845

Synonyms

Moya Griseb., 1874

Monteverdia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae.

In a taxonomic review, Leonardo Biral et al. (2017) in Systematic Botany 42 (4), reclassified 123 species of Maytenus now placed in the genus Monteverdia.[1]

## Selected species[edit]

Some of the 123 especies are:

* Monteverdia buxifolia A.Rich., 1845
* Monteverdia eggersii (Loes.) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia harrisii (Krug & Urb.) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia laevis (Reissek) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia macrocarpa (Ruiz & Pav.) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia manabiensis (Loes.) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia matudae (Lundell) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia microcarpa (Fawc. & Rendle) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia multicostata Cornejo & Biral, 2021 [2]
* Monteverdia pittieriana (Steyerm.) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia ponceana (Britt.) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia robusta (Reissek) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia spinosa ((Griseb.) Lourteig & O'Donell) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia stipitata (Lundell) Biral, 2017
* Monteverdia zakii Biral & Cornejo, 2021 [2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Biral, Leonardo; Simmons, Mark P.; Smidt, Eric C.; Tembrock, Luke R.; Bolson, Mônica; Archer, Robert H.; Lombardi, Julio A. (December 18, 2017). "Systematics of New World Maytenus (Celastraceae) and a New Delimitation of the Genus". Systematic Botany. 42 (4): 680–693. doi:10.1600/036364417X696456. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 53121214.
2. ^ a b Biral, Leonardo; Cornejo, Xavier (2021-01-08). "Two new species of Monteverdia (Celastraceae) from Ecuador". Phytotaxa. 479 (2): 183–190. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.479.2.4.

Media related to Monteverdia at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q85024193
* Wikispecies: Monteverdia
* CoL: 63CXX
* GBIF: 7265474
* IPNI: 6621-1
* IRMNG: 1082160
* NCBI: 2364055
* Open Tree of Life: 5331743
* Tropicos: 40022519

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