Capraria (plant genus)

Capraria
	Capraria biflora
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Plantain family (Plantaginaceae)
Tribe :	Gratioleae
Genre :	Capraria
Scientific name
	Capraria
	L.

Capraria is a genus within the plant family of plantain plants (Plantaginaceae). The only four species are common in the Neotropics from the USA to Peru.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Capraria species grow as perennial herbaceous plants or small shrubs . The alternately arranged leaves are longer than wide with a serrated leaf margin.

Generative characteristics

The stalked flowers stand individually in the leaf axils. The hermaphrodite flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five almost identical sepals are narrow. The five white petals are bell-shaped and end in five flat corolla lobes. There are usually four stamens present.

The loculicidal capsule fruits are short. The seeds have a net-like surface.

Systematics

The genus Capraria was established in 1753 by Carl von Linné in Species Plantarum , 2, p. 628. Type species is Capraria biflora L.

The genus Capraria belongs to the tribe Gratioleae within the family of the Plantaginaceae . It used to be assigned to the families Scrophulariaceae , Gratiolaceae or Veronicaceae.

There are only four species of Capraria :

Capraria biflora L .: It iswidespreadfrom Florida and Mexico , on the Caribbean islands, through Central and South America . It is a neophyte in Ghana, Mauritius and Cape Verde. The number of chromosomes is 2n = about 28 or about 60.
Capraria frutescens (Mill.) Briq. (Syn .: Capraria saxifragifolia Cham. & Schltdl. ): The number of chromosomes is 2n = about 28. It occurs in Mexico and Honduras .
Capraria mexicana Moric. ex Benth. : It occurs from Texas to Mexico to Belize .
Capraria peruviana Benth. : It occurs in Peru and Ecuador .

No longer belongs to this genus:

Capraria integrifolia M. Martens & Galeotti is a synonym of Nama jamaicense L. within the Boraginaceae.

use

Capraria biflora is widely used in folk medicine.

Using Capraria biflora for reclamation of disturbed areas.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Rodrigo Duno de Stefano, Germán Carnevali Fernández-Concha, Ivón M. Ramírez Morillo, José Luis Tapia, Silvia Hernández-Aguilar, Lilia Lorena Can-Itza, Filogonio May Pat: Notes on the flora of the Yucatan Peninsula VI: Capraria mexicana Moric. ex Benth. (Scrophulariaceae ss), new record and some comments about the genus in the region , In: Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México , Volume 79, 2006, pp. 61-66. On-line.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Nathaniel Lord Britton, Charles Frederick Millspaugh: The Bahama flora , 1920, pp. 390–391: scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .
↑ First publication scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .
↑ Capraria at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed October 1, 2013.
↑ ^a ^b Capraria in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
↑ ^a ^b Capraria at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
^ ^A ^b John K. Francis, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Jardín Botánico Sur, in cooperation with the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras: USDA data sheet Capraria biflora full-text PDF.

Web links

Commons : Capraria - collection of images, videos and audio files

[Duno2006-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Rodrigo Duno de Stefano, Germán Carnevali Fernández-Concha, Ivón M. Ramírez Morillo, José Luis Tapia, Silvia Hernández-Aguilar, Lilia Lorena Can-Itza, Filogonio May Pat: Notes on the flora of the Yucatan Peninsula VI: Capraria mexicana Moric. ex Benth. (Scrophulariaceae ss), new record and some comments about the genus in the region , In: Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México , Volume 79, 2006, pp. 61-66. On-line.

[BF-2] Nathaniel Lord Britton, Charles Frederick Millspaugh: The Bahama flora , 1920, pp. 390–391: scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .

[biodiversitylibrary-3] First publication scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .

[Tropicos-4] Capraria at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed October 1, 2013.

[GRIN-5] Capraria in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved December 17, 2017.

[IPCN-6] Capraria at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

[USDA-Cb-7] A ^b John K. Francis, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Jardín Botánico Sur, in cooperation with the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras: USDA data sheet Capraria biflora full-text PDF.