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Yeatesia

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Yeatesia
Yeatesia viridiflora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Subfamily: Acanthoideae
Tribe: Justicieae
Genus: Yeatesia
Small (1896)[1]
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Gatesia A.Gray (1878), nom. illeg.

Yeatesia is a putative genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, found in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States, from Texas to Florida. Each of its species grows in very different habitats; Yeatesia mabryi is found in hardwood forests in Mexico, Y. platystegia prefers semiarid scrublands in Mexico and Texas, and Y. viridiflora grows in wetter forest bluffs and along water courses in US Gulf Coast states. Molecular evidence shows that Yeatesia is not a monophyletic genus.[3]

Species

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Currently accepted species include:[2]

References

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  1. ^ Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 410 (1896)
  2. ^ a b "Yeatesia Small". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  3. ^ Kiel, Carrie A.; McDade, Lucinda A. (2014). "The Mirandea Clade (Acanthaceae, Justicieae, Tetramerium Lineage): Phylogenetic Signal from Molecular Data and Micromorphology Makes Sense of Taxonomic Confusion Caused by Remarkable Diversity of Floral Form". Systematic Botany. 39 (3): 950–964. doi:10.1600/036364414X681446. S2CID 86386856.