Ditassa

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: Asclepiadoideae
Tribus: Asclepiadeae
Subtribus: Metastelmatinae
Genus: Ditassa
Species: D. acerifolia – D. aequicymosa – D. albiflora – D. albonerva – D. anderssonii – D. auriflora – D. auyantepuiensis – D. ayangannensis – D. banksii – D. bicolor – D. blanchetii – D. bolivarensis – D. buntingii – D. capillaris – D. carnevalii – D. caucana – D. ciliata – D. cipoensis – D. colellae – D. conceptionis – D. congesta – D. cordeiroana – D. crassa – D. crassifolia – D. dardanoi – D. dolichoglossa – D. duartei – D. duidae – D. edmundoi – D. emmerichiae – D. endoleuca – D. eximia – D. fasciculata – D. fiebrigii – D. foldatsii – D. fontellae – D. franciscoi – D. fulva – D. gardneri – D. gillespieae – D. glazioui – D. gracilipes – D. gracilis – D. grandiflora – D. hastata – D. hispida – D. imbricata – D. insignis – D. itambensis – D. jahnii – D. juliani – D. laevis – D. lagoensis – D. lanceolata – D. lenheirensis – D. leonii – D. liesneri – D. lindemanii – D. linearis – D. lisae – D. longicaulis – D. longiloba – D. longisepala – D. macarenae – D. mandonii – D. maricaensis – D. mattogrossensis – D. megapotamica – D. microneriifolia – D. mucronata – D. multinervia – D. nigrescens – D. nitida – D. obcordata – D. oberdanii – D. obovata – D. obscura – D. oliva-estevae – D. ottohuberi – D. oxyphylla – D. pauciflora – D. pedunculata – D. perijensis – D. peruviana – D. poeppigii – D. pohliana – D. racemosa – D. ramosa – D. retusa – D. roraimensis – D. rotundifolia – D. salzmannii – D. sillensis – D. silveirae – D. sipapoana – D. sobradoi – D. subalpina – D. subulata – D. subumbellata – D. succedanea – D. sucrensis – D. surinamensis – D. tamayoi – D. taxifolia – D. thymifolia – D. tomentosa – D. velutina – D. venamensis – D. verticillata – D. violascens – D. weberbaueri – D. xeroneura
Name

Ditassa R.Br., Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 49 (1809) et R.Br. Asclepiadeae 38. (1810)

Type species: Ditassa banksii R.Br. ex Schult. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15 bis 6: 112 (1820)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Calathostelma E.Fourn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 6(4): 219 (1885)
Husnotia E.Fourn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 6(4): 211 (1885)

References

Brown, R. 1809. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1: 49.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Ditassa in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2018 Sept. 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Ditassa. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 19 2017.
Tropicos.org 2017. Ditassa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 Sept. 2017.

Ditassa is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810.[2] It is native to South America.[3][4][5]

Species

Ditassa acerifolia - S Venezuela
Ditassa aequicymosa - São Paulo
Ditassa albiflora - Peru
Ditassa albonerva - Lara in Venezuela
Ditassa anderssonii - Ecuador
Ditassa auriflora - Minas Gerais
Ditassa auyantepuiensis - Venezuela
Ditassa ayangannensis - Guyana
Ditassa banksii - Rio Janeiro
Ditassa bicolor - Minas Gerais
Ditassa blanchetii - Brazil
Ditassa bolivarensis - Bolívar in Venezuela
Ditassa buntingii - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa capillaris - São Paulo, Bahia
Ditassa carnevalii - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa caucana - Colombia
Ditassa ciliata - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa cipoensis - Minas Gerais
Ditassa colellae - Bolivar in Venezuela
Ditassa conceptionis - Brazil
Ditassa congesta - Brazil
Ditassa cordeiroana - Minas Gerais
Ditassa crassa - Peru
Ditassa crassifolia - Brazil
Ditassa dardanoi - Brazil
Ditassa dolichoglossa - Bahia
Ditassa duartei - Espírito Santo
Ditassa duidae - Cerro Duida in Venezuela
Ditassa edmundoi - Serra de S. Luiz de Purunã in Paraná
Ditassa emmerichii - Brazil
Ditassa endoleuca - Colombia, Ecuador
Ditassa eximia - Brazil
Ditassa farneyi - Brazil
Ditassa fasciculata - Brazil
Ditassa fiebrigii - Bolivia
Ditassa foldatsii - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa fontellae - Brazil
Ditassa franciscoi - Venezuela, Colombia
Ditassa fulva - Brazil
Ditassa gardneri - Brazil
Ditassa gillespieae - Guyana
Ditassa glaziovii - Brazil
Ditassa gracilipes - Peru
Ditassa gracilis - São Paulo
Ditassa hastata - Brazil
Ditassa hispida - Bahia
Ditassa imbricata - Rio de Janeiro
Ditassa insignis - Minas Gerais
Ditassa itambensis - Minas Gerais
Ditassa jahnii - Mérida in Venezuela
Ditassa juliani - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa laevis - Brazil
Ditassa lanceolata - Peru, Brazil
Ditassa lenheirensis - Minas Gerais
Ditassa leonii - Minas Gerais
Ditassa liesneri - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa lindemanii - Suriname
Ditassa linearis - Brazil
Ditassa lisae - Lara in Venezuela
Ditassa longicaulis - Brazil
Ditassa longiloba - Colombia
Ditassa longisepala - Brazil
Ditassa macarenae - Sierra de la Macarena in Colombia
Ditassa mandonii - Bolivia
Ditassa maranhensis - Maranhão
Ditassa maricaensis - Rio de Janeiro
Ditassa mattogrossensis - Mato Grosso
Ditassa megapotamica - Uruguay, S Brazil
Ditassa mucronata - Morro de Villa Rica in Minas Gerais
Ditassa multinervia - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa myrtilloides - Serra Moeda in Minas Gerais
Ditassa nigrescens - Guyana
Ditassa niruri - Brazil
Ditassa nitida - Brazil
Ditassa obcordata - Minas Gerais
Ditassa oberdanii - Espírito Santo
Ditassa obovata - Bolivar in Venezuela
Ditassa obscura - Serra de Araxa in Paranaíba
Ditassa oliva-estevae - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa ottohuberi - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa oxyphylla - Venezuela, N Brazil
Ditassa paranensis - Paraná
Ditassa pauciflora - Guyana, N Brazil
Ditassa pedunculata - Minas Gerais
Ditassa perijensis - Magdalena in Colombia
Ditassa peruviana - Peru
Ditassa poeppigii - Brazil
Ditassa pohliana - Brazil
Ditassa racemosa - Chuquisaca in Bolivia
Ditassa ramosa - Brazil
Ditassa retusa - Brazil
Ditassa roraimensis - Guyana, SE Venezuela, N Brazil
Ditassa rotundifolia - Bahia
Ditassa salzmannii - Brazil
Ditassa schlechteri - Bolivia
Ditassa sillensis - N Venezuela
Ditassa silveirae - Serra do Cipó in Minas Gerais
Ditassa sipapoana - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa sobradoi - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa subalpina - Bolivia
Ditassa subulata - Margarita Island, Venezuelan West Indies
Ditassa subumbellata - Rio de Janeiro
Ditassa succedanea - Minas Gerais
Ditassa sucrensis - Venezuela
Ditassa surinamensis - Tafelberg in Suriname
Ditassa tamayoi - Zulia in Venezuela
Ditassa tassadioides - Sierra de Santa Cruz in Bolivia
Ditassa taxifolia - Guyana
Ditassa tomentosa - Rio de Janeiro
Ditassa umbellata - Rio de Janeiro
Ditassa velutina - Brazil
Ditassa venamensis - Bolivar in Venezuela
Ditassa verticillata - Amazonas in Venezuela
Ditassa violascens - Cuzco in Peru
Ditassa warmingii - Brazil
Ditassa weberbaueri - Chachapoyas Province in Peru
Ditassa xeroneura - Amazonas in Venezuela

formerly included

transferred to other genera (Blepharodon, Cynanchum, Macroditassa, Metastelma, Minaria, Oxypetalum, Tassadia)

D. abortiva now Minaria abortiva
D. acerosa now Minaria acerosa
D. adnata now Macroditassa adnata
D. angustifolia now Cynanchum morilloi
D. anomala now Metastelma burchellii
D. aristata now Tassadia aristata
D. barbata now Macroditassa laurifolia
D. bifurcata now Minaria bifurcata
D. blepharodontoides now Blepharodon glaucescens
D. bonariensis now Cynanchum bonariense
D. burchellii now Metastelma burchellii
D. cordata now Minaria cordata
D. cordata var. abortiva now Minaria abortiva
D. decussata now Minaria decussata
D. diamantinensis now Minaria diamantinensis
D. ditassoides now Minaria ditassoides
D. ericoides now Minaria acerosa
D. glaucescens now Blepharodon glaucescens
D. grandiflora now Macroditassa grandiflora
D. grazielae now Minaria grazielae
D. hemipogonoides now Minaria hemipogonoides
D. humilis now Oxypetalum humile
D. inconspicua now Minaria inconspicua
D. lourteigiae now Minaria lourteigiae
D. magisteriana now Minaria magisteriana
D. manicata now Blepharodon manicatum
D. melantha now Macroditassa melantha
D. micromeria now Minaria micromeria
D. monocoronata now Minaria monocoronata
D. oblongifolia now Minaria abortiva
D. parva now Minaria parva
D. passerinoides Mart. not Decne. now Minaria decussata
D. passerinoides Decne. not Mart. now Minaria cordata
D. polygaloides now Minaria polygaloides
D. reflexa now Macroditassa laurifolia
D. refractifolia now Minaria refractifolia
D. semirii now Minaria semirii
D. virgata now Minaria cordata

References

illustrations circa 1827 from Nova genera et species plantarum. Monachii [Munich] :Impensis Auctoris,1824-1829
Brown, Robert. 1810. On the Asclepiadeae 38.
Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-20.. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín
Martius, Carl (Karl) Friedrich Philipp von. 1885. Ditassa. Flora Brasiliensis 6(4): 237- 258