Callisia

Callisia
	Callisia repens
Systematics
	Monocots
	Commelinids
Order :	Commelina-like (Commelinales)
Family :	Commelina plants (Commelinaceae)
Subfamily :	Commelinoideae
Genre :	Callisia
Scientific name
	Callisia
	Loefl.

Callisia is a genus of plants belonging tothe Commelina family (Commelinaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Greek word kallos for 'beauty'.

description

The species of the genus Callisia are perennial , rarely annual or short-lived herbaceous plants with succulent leaves .

The inflorescence is different. It usually consists of coils that are united in pairs. There are no noticeable bracts. The sessile or stalked flowers are usually actinomorphic and hermaphroditic. Their three, very rarely two, sepals are occasionally hyaline . The three, very rarely two, not fused petals are usually white or pink. The six stamens are all the same or almost all the same or reduced to three or one. The stamens are usually hairless , but sometimes bearded. The anthers are movable and their connective mostly wide. The ovary is three-sided and rarely two-sided. There are two ovules in each compartment . Very rarely is there just one. The scar is usually brush-shaped or tiny head-shaped.

The fruits are small capsule fruits . They contain seeds with a point-like hilum .

Callisia elegans

Callisia fragrans

Callisia navicularis

Callisia ornata

Systematics and distribution

The genus Callisia is common in the southeastern United States , Mexico, and tropical America.

The first description by Pehr Löfling was published in 1758. The genus Callisia includes the following species:

Callisia amplexans (Handless) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Mexico.
Callisia amplexicaulis (Klotzsch ex CBClarke) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from Mexico to Costa Rica.
Callisia angustifolia (BLRob.) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from Mexico to Guatemala.
Callisia brasiliensis (handless) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in eastern Brazil.
Callisia ciliata Kunth : The home is Panama and Colombia.
Callisia cordifolia (Sw.) Andiers. & Woodson : Home is tropical America north to Florida and Georgia.
Callisia disgrega (Kunth) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from Mexico to Honduras.
Callisia diuretica (Mart.) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and northeastern Argentina.
Callisia elata (DRHunt) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Brazil.
Callisia encolea (Diels) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in western South America.
Callisia filiformis (M.Martens & Galeotti) DRHunt : The home is Mexico to Brazil with the Lesser Antilles.
Callisia fragrans (Lindl.) Woodson : Home is Mexico.
Callisia gentlei Matuda : The home is southern Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. With three varieties:
- Callisia gentlei var. Gentlei
- Callisia gentlei var. Elegans (Alexander ex HEMoore) DRHunt
- Callisia gentlei var. Macdougallii (Miranda) DRHunt
Callisia glandulosa (Seub.) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from southern Venezuela to northern Argentina and Trinidad.
Callisia gracilis (Kunth) DRHunt : The distribution area extends from Panama to Venezuela and Peru.
Callisia graminea (Small) GCTucker : The home is the southeastern USA.
Callisia hintoniorum B.L. Turner : The home is the province of Nuevo León in Mexico.
Callisia insignis C.B. Clarke : The home is Mexico.
Callisia ionantha (Diels) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in southeastern Peru.
Callisia kruseana (Matuda) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Mexico.
Callisia laui (DRHunt) DRHunt : The home is the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca in Mexico.
Callisia mexicana Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in southwestern Mexico.
Callisia micrantha (Torr.) DRHunt : It is native to southeast Texas and the Tamaulipas province ofMexico.
Callisia monandra (Sw.) Schult. & School f. : The distribution area extends from Mexico to tropical South America.
Callisia montana (handless) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from southern Mexico to Honduras.
Callisia multiflora (M. Martens & Galeotti) Standl. : The homeland is Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
Callisia navicularis (Ortgies) DRHunt : The home is northeastern Mexico.
Callisia neglecta (handless) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Brazil.
Callisia ornata (Small) GCTucker : Home is Florida and southern Georgia.
Callisia palmeri (Rose) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in central and western Mexico.
Callisia purpurascens (S. Schauer) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from Mexico to Panama, in Bolivia and in northwestern Argentina. There are two subspecies.
Callisia repens (Jacq.) L .: The range includes tropical America, Mexico and southeastern Texas.
Callisia rosea (Vent.) DRHunt : The home is the southeastern USA.
Callisia saxicola (Greenm.) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Mexico.
Callisia serrulata (Vahl) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs from Mexico to tropical South America.
Callisia silvatica (handless) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Mexico.
Callisia soconuscensis Matuda : The home is southern Mexico and Guatemala.
Callisia tehuantepecana Matuda : The home is the province of Oaxaca in Mexico.
Callisia warmingiana (Seub.) Christenh. & Byng : It occurs in Brazil.
Callisia warszewicziana (Kunth & CDBouché) DRHunt : The home is Guatemala and the states of Veracruz and Chiapas of Mexico.

To this extent the genus Callisia is not monophyletic .

Synonyms are Aploleia Raf. (1837), Phyodina Raf. (1837), Spironema Lindl. (1840, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1), Cuthbertia Small (1903), Leptocallisia (Benth. & Hook.f.) Pichon (1946) and Hadrodemas H.E. Moore (1963).

proof

literature

David Richard Hunt : Callisia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 259-260 .

Individual evidence

^ Pehr Löfling: Iter Hispanicum. Eller resa til Spanska ländera uti Europa och America 1751–1756 . 1758, pp. 305-306 ( online ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Callisia. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved March 20, 2020.
↑ Jean H. Burns, Robert B. Faden, Scott J. Steppan: Phylogenetic Studies in the Commelinaceae Subfamily Commelinoideae Inferred from Nuclear Ribosomal and Chloroplast DNA Sequences . In: Systematic Botany . Volume 36, Number 2, 2011, pp. 268-276 ( doi: 10.1600 / 036364411X569471 ).

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[1] Pehr Löfling: Iter Hispanicum. Eller resa til Spanska ländera uti Europa och America 1751–1756 . 1758, pp. 305-306 ( online ).

[WCSP-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Callisia. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved March 20, 2020.

[3] Jean H. Burns, Robert B. Faden, Scott J. Steppan: Phylogenetic Studies in the Commelinaceae Subfamily Commelinoideae Inferred from Nuclear Ribosomal and Chloroplast DNA Sequences . In: Systematic Botany . Volume 36, Number 2, 2011, pp. 268-276 ( doi: 10.1600 / 036364411X569471 ).