Oplonia

Genus of flowering plants

Oplonia

Oplonia spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Acanthaceae
Subfamily:  | Acanthoideae
Tribe:  | Justicieae
Genus:  | Oplonia
Raf. (1838)
Synonyms[1]

* Anthacanthus Nees (1847)
* Crateola Raf. (1838)
* Forsythiopsis Baker (1883)
* Hesperanthemum Kuntze (1891)

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

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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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1. ^ a b c Oplonia Raf. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 7 February 2024.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oplonia.

Wikispecies has information related to Oplonia.

* 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.

Taxon identifiers

Oplonia|

* Wikidata: Q2712871
* Wikispecies: Oplonia
* APDB: 201896
* CoL: 697X
* EoL: 59461
* GBIF: 3173231
* GRIN: 8509
* iNaturalist: 348558
* IPNI: 772-1
* IRMNG: 1325468
* ITIS: 34368
* NCBI: 141324
* Open Tree of Life: 885519
* PLANTS: OPLON
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:772-1
* Tropicos: 40032579
* WFO: wfo-4000026985

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