Cascabela

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Rauvolfioideae
Tribus: Plumerieae
Subtribus: Thevetiinae
Genus: Cascabela
Species: C. balsaensis – C. gaumeri – C. ovata – C. pinifolia – C. thevetia – C. thevetioides
Name

Cascabela Raf., Sylva Tellur.: 162 (1838)

Type species: Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold, Feddes Repert. 91: 52 (1980)

Note: This genus can often be found in synonymy with Thevetia L. (1758) (Endress et al., 2014 & Williams & Stutzman, 2008), but c.f. Alvarado-Cárdenas & Ochoterena (2007), Alvarado-Cárdenas et al. (2017) and see Govaerts et al. (2017), as there is no consensus this page is a taxonomic opinion.
References

Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1838. Sylva Telluriana 162.
Alvarado-Cárdenas, L.O. & Ochoterena, H. 2007. A phylogenetic analysis of the Cascabela–Thevetia species complex (Plumerieae, Apocynaceae) based on morphology. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94(2): 298-323. DOI: 10.3417/0026-6493(2007)94[298:APAOTC]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.
Alvarado-Cárdenas, L.O., Villaseñor, J.L., López-Mata, L., Cadena, J. & Ortiz, E. 2017. Systematics, distribution and conservation of Cascabela (Apocynaceae: Rauvolfioideae: Plumerieae) in Mexico. Plant Systematics and Evolution 303(3): 337-369. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-016-1375-6 Reference page.
Endress, M.E., Liede-Schumann, S. & Meve, U. 2014. An updated classification for Apocynaceae. Phytotaxa 159(3): 175–194. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.159.3.2 ResearchGate Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2017. Cascabela in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2017 Oct. 9. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Cascabela. Published online. Accessed: Oct. 9 2017.
Williams, J.K. & Stutzman, J.K. 2008. Chromosome number of Thevetia ahouai (Apocynaceae: Rauvolfoidae: Plumerieae) with discussion on the generic boundaries of Thevetia. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 2(1): 489-493. JSTOR Reference page.

Cascabela is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It is native to Mexico, Central America, and South America.[1][2]

Species[1]

Cascabela gaumeri (Hemsl.) Lippold - Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica
Cascabela ovata (Cav.) Lippold - Central America, much of Mexico
Cascabela pinifolia (Standl. & Steyerm.) L.O.Alvarado & Ochot.-Booth - C + S Mexico
Cascabela thevetia (L.) Lippold - Latin America from N Mexico to NE Argentina
Cascabela thevetioides (Kunth) Lippold - Mexico

References

"World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Cascabela". Retrieved May 18, 2014.
Alvarado-Cárdenas, L.O. & Ocheterena, H. (2007). A phylogenetic analysis of the Cascabelia-Thevetia species complex (Plumerieae, Apocynaceae) based on morphology. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 94: 298-323.