Reynosia

Reynosia
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Rose-like (rosales)
Family :	Buckthorn Family (Rhamnaceae)
Genre :	Reynosia
Scientific name
	Reynosia
	Griseb.

Reynosia is a genus from the family of the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). It includes around 15 species mostly in Central America and the Caribbean. The name honors Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso y Valdés (1829–1888), a Cuban agronomist and chemist.

description

Reynosia are evergreen shrubs or small trees whose leaves are arranged on opposite sides.

The flowers are sessile , axillary, umbel- like zymose fascicles or single flowers. The flower cup is briefly bell-shaped to hemispherical. Petals are missing. The discus that has grown together with the flower cup is fleshy. The ovary is on top. The fruits are drupes with a per stunted second trays einfächrigen stone core . The abundant endosperm in the seeds is hard.

Distribution and systematics

The Reynosia comprise around fifteen species and are native to southern North America, Central America and the Caribbean.

The genus was first described in 1866 by August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach . Within the buckthorn family , it is classified in the tribe Rhamneae . The types include:

Reynosia jamaicensis M.C. Johnst.
Reynosia guama Urb.
Reynosia septentrionalis Urb. : It occurs in Florida, the Bahamas and Cuba.
Reynosia krugii Urb.
Reynosia uncinata Urb.

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↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 , doi : 10.3372 / epolist2016
↑ ^a ^b ^c D. Medan, C. Schirarend: Rhamnaceae In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales , 2004, P. 333, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8
^ Reynosia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 27, 2017.

[Burkhardt2016-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 , doi : 10.3372 / epolist2016

[kub-2] D. Medan, C. Schirarend: Rhamnaceae In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales , 2004, P. 333, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8

[GRIN-3] Reynosia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 27, 2017.