Cantua

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Ordo: Ericales

Familia: Polemoniaceae
Subfamilia: Cobaeoideae
Tribus: Cantueae
Genus: Cantua
Species: C. alutacea – C. bicolor – C. buxifolia – C. candelilla – C. cordata – C. cuzcoensis – C. dendritica – C. flexuosa – C. hibrida – C. longifolia – C. mediamnis – C. megapotamica – C. ovata – C. pyrifolia – C. quercifolia – C. tomentosa – C. volcanica
Name

Cantua Juss. ex Lam. Encycl. 1: 603. (1785)

Type species: C. buxifolia Juss. ex Lam.Encycl. 1: 603. (1785)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Huthia Brand, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 42: 174. 1908.
Type species: H. coerulea Brand
Periphragmos Ruiz & Pav., Fl. Peruv. Prodr. 26, t. 24. 1794.
Type species: P. flexuosa Ruiz & Pav.

References

Jussieu, A.L. de 1785. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 1: 603. BHL
Infantes Vera, J.G. 1962. Revisión del género Cantua (Polemoniaceae). Lilloa 31: 75–107.
Porter, J.M., & Johnson, L.A. 2000. A phylogenetic classification of Polemoniaceae. Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany 19(1): 55–91. DOI: 10.5642/aliso.20001901.06 Full text PDF Reference page.
Porter, J. M. & Prather, L. A. 2008. Cantua dendritica (Polemoniaceae), a New Species from Peru, and Two New Cantua Names. ‘’Aliso’’ 25(1): 31–35. DOI: 10.5642/aliso.20082501.03 Full text PDF Reference page.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Cantua in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.
Cantua is a genus of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae which is in the order Ericales. They are restricted to central South America where many species are endemics in the countries of occurrence.

There are currently about 12[1] recognised species including:[2][3]

Cantua bicolor Lem., native to Bolivia and Peru
Cantua buxifolia Juss. ex Lam., native to Bolivia
Cantua candelilla Brand
Cantua cuzcoensis Infantes
Cantua dendritica J.M.Porter & Prather
Cantua flexuosa (Ruiz & Pav.) Pers.
Cantua mediamnis J.M.Porter & Prather
Cantua pyrifolia Juss. ex Lam.
Cantua quercifolia Juss.
Cantua volcanica J.M.Porter & Prather

Synonyms include:

Huthia Brand
Periphragmos Ruiz & Pav.
Tunaria Kuntze

References

Porter, J. Mark and L. Alan Prather (2008). "Cantua dendritica (Polemoniaceae), a new species from Peru, and two new Cantua names" (PDF). Aliso. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. 25: 31–35. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
Monfils, Anna K. and L. Alan Prather (2010). "'Phylogeny of Cantua (Polemoniaceae): Evidence from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequence Data". Systematic Botany. The American Society of Plant Taxonomists. 35 (4): 877–884. doi:10.1600/036364410X539925.
Plant Systematics - Cantua