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Lepuropetalon
Sign in to saveLepuropetalon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae containing only one species, Lepuropetalon spathulatum. It is a winter annual that is most abundant in eastern Texas and western Louisiana. From there, it occurs sporadically southward into Mexico, and eastward through the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain, and rarely in the Piedmont Plateau, to North Carolina. It has a disjunct distribution. In addition to the area mentioned above, it is also found in Uruguay and central Chile.
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Vinony's link graph records 4 inbound references to Lepuropetalon, and connects out to stamen, sepal and gynoecium.
It sits within the topics Celastraceae, Celastraceae genera and Flora of Alabama.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCelastrales
- FamilyParnassiaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 23
- With media
- 24
- Family
- Parnassiaceae
- Collections
- BRIT, CAS, VT, BAYLU, LSU, MNHN
- Recorded in
- United States, Myanmar, India
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Celastraceae
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- taxon name
- Lepuropetalon
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Lepuropetalon
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- Lepuropetalon
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Affinities
- References
- External links
Lepuropetalon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae containing only one species, Lepuropetalon spathulatum. It is a winter annual that is most abundant in eastern Texas and western Louisiana. From there, it occurs sporadically southward into Mexico, and eastward through the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain, and rarely in the Piedmont Plateau, to North Carolina. It has a disjunct distribution. In addition to the area mentioned above, it is also found in Uruguay and central Chile.
Before 2009, Lepuropetalon had been placed with Parnassia in the family Parnassiaceae, now usually treated as a segregate of Celastraceae. In 2009, it was placed in the family Celastraceae by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's APG III system. When their most recent revision of Angiosperm classification was published in 2016, it retained its position in the family Celastraceae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lepuropetalon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.