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Lopezia
Sign in to saveLopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.
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Vinony's link graph records 5 inbound references to Lopezia, and connects out to Cuba, Costa Rica and Honduras.
It is catalogued under topics including Flora of Central America, Flora of Mexico and Onagraceae.
Vinony links it to 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMyrtales
- FamilyOnagraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 343
- With media
- 167
- Family
- Onagraceae
- Collections
- ECOSUR, INECOL, FCB-BUAP, GH, FC-UNAM, UACH
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Onagraceae
- Image
- Lopezia miniata Costa Rica.jpg
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- taxon name
- Lopezia
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Lopezia
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- Lopezia
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Distribution
- Species
- Gallery
- Notes
- References
Lopezia is a genus of plants of the family Onagraceae, largely restricted to Mexico and Central America.
== Description == Herbs or shrubs, mostly freely branched. Leaves petioled, alternate, or the lower opposite, simple. Flowers -solitary, small, pedicelled, in upper axils of sometimes much reduced leaves. Floral tube inconspicuous. Sepals 4, mostly red, narrow. Petals 4, dissimilar, white to rose, the 2 upper unguiculate, with none, one, or two glands at apex of claw; the 2 lower clawed and curved upward, glandless. Stamens 2, adnate to the style and connate with each other at the base, the posterior fertile, the anterior sterile, petaloid. Ovary 4-loculed; style short, filiform, with slightly enlarged and barely lobed stigma; ovules multiseriate, many. Capsule globose to clavate, coriaceous, 4-loculed and -valved. Seeds many, obovoid, granulate.
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