Calycorectes

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Calycorectes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Myrteae
Genus: Calycorectes
O.Berg
Type species
Calycorectes grandifolius
Synonyms[3]
  • Schizocalyx O.Berg 1856, illegitimate homonym, not Scheele 1843 (Lamiaceae) nor Hochst. 1844 (Salvadoraceae) nor Wedd. 1854 (Rubiaceae)
  • Schizocalomyrtus Kausel

Calycorectes is a genus of plant in family Myrtaceae first described as a genus in 1856.[4][2] It is native to South America, southern Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.[3]

Accepted species[3]
Formerly included

moved to other genera: Eugenia Hottea Plinia Psidium Siphoneugena Stereocaryum

  1. Calycorectes ambivalens - Eugenia lagoensis
  2. Calycorectes australis - Eugenia brevistyla
  3. Calycorectes cubensis - Plinia cubensis
  4. Calycorectes densiflorus - Siphoneugena densiflora
  5. Calycorectes duarteanus - Eugenia brevistyla
  6. Calycorectes guyanensis - Eugenia galbaoensis
  7. Calycorectes latifolius - Eugenia latifolia
  8. Calycorectes legrandii - Eugenia psidiiflora
  9. Calycorectes lourteigiae - Eugenia malacantha
  10. Calycorectes macrocalyx - Eugenia wentii
  11. Calycorectes minutifolius - Eugenia neibensis
  12. Calycorectes moana - Hottea moana
  13. Calycorectes ovigerus - Stereocaryum ovigerum
  14. Calycorectes protractus - Psidium sartorianum
  15. Calycorectes psidiiflorus - Eugenia psidiiflora
  16. Calycorectes riedelianus - Eugenia psidiiflora
  17. Calycorectes rubiginosus - Stereocaryum rubiginosum
  18. Calycorectes schultzianus - Eugenia psidiiflora
  19. Calycorectes sellowianus - Eugenia brevistyla
  20. Calycorectes striatulus - Eugenia psidiiflora
  21. Calycorectes widgrenianus - Siphoneugena crassifolia
  22. Calycorectes yatuae - Eugenia yatuae

References[edit]

  1. ^ lectotype designated by Amshoff, Rec. Trav. Bot. Nierl. 39: 156 (1942)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Calycorectes O. Berg
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Berg, Otto Karl. 1856. 27(2–3): 136, 317-319 in Latin
  5. ^ Sánchez-Vindas, P. E. 1990. Myrtaceae. Flora de Veracruz 62: 1–146.