Lacunaria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Malpighiales

Familia: Ochnaceae
Subfamilia: Quiinoideae
Genus: Lacunaria
Name

Lacunaria Ducke, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 4: 139(–140), fig. 12. 1925.

Type species: Lacunaria grandiflora Ducke, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 4: 140. 1925. – Lectotype designated by D’Arcy (1981), p. 965.

Overview of species
Accepted species

L. crenata – L. grandifolia – L. jenmanii – L. macrostachya – L. oppositifolia – L. sampaioi – L. umbonata
Source(s) of checklist:
List based on accepted species according to Schneider & Zizka (2012).
Names in synonymy

L. acreana – L. colonensis – L. coriacea – L. decastyla – L. grandiflora – L. minor – L. panamensis – L. pauciflora – L. pulchrinervis – L. silvatica – L. spruceana
Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Southern America
Central America
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama.
Northern South America
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela.
Western South America
Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.
Brazil
Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central.

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References
Primary references

Ducke, A. 1925. Plantes nouvelles ou peu connues de la région amazonienne (IIIe Partie). Archivos do Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro 4: 1–208, 25 tt. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

D’Arcy, W.G. 1981 ["1980"]. Family 121A. Quiinaceae. In Woodson, R.E., Jr., Schery, R.W. & collaborators, Flora of Panama, Part VI. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 67: 965–968. BHL JSTOR Reference page.
Hahn, W.J. 2001. Quiinaceae Choisy ex Engl. Pp. 2187–2188 in Stevens, W.D., Ulloa Ulloa, C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (eds.), Flora de Nicaragua, Vol. 3, Angiospermas (Pandanaceae–Zygophyllaceae). (Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85). Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. Online Reference page.
Macbride, J.F. 1956. Quiinaceae. In Flora of Peru. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13(3A/2): 717–726. BHL Reference page.
Rocha, A.E.S. & Secco, R.S. 2004. Uma sinopse de Lacunaria Ducke. Acta Amazonica 34: 425–433. DOI: 10.1590/S0044-59672004000300008 Reference page.
Schneider, J.V. & Zizka, G. 2004. Quiinaceae. Pp. 393–407 in Steyermark, J.A. (†), Berry, P.E., Yatskievych, K. & Holst, B.K. (eds.), Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana, Vol. 8, Poaceae–Rubiaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis. ISBN 1-930723-36-9. Reference page.
Schneider, J.V. & Zizka, G. 2007. Quiinaceae. In Funk, V., Hollowell, T., Berry, P., Kelloff, C. & Alexander, S.N., Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 55: 475. BHL Reference page.
Schneider, J.V. & Zizka, G. 2012. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Lacunaria (Quiinaceae / Ochnaceae s. l.). Systematic Botany 37: 165–188. DOI: 10.1600/036364412X616747 Reference page.

Links

International Plant Names Index. 2019. Lacunaria. Published online. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Lacunaria in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2019 January 29.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Lacunaria.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Lacunaria in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 2019-01-29.
Hassler, M. 2019. Lacunaria. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 January 29. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Lacunaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Tropicos.org: Flora Mesoamericana: Lacunaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Lacunaria in Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of the Department of Antioquia (Colombia): Lacunaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Tropicos.org: Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador: Lacunaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Tropicos.org: Peru Checklist: Lacunaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Tropicos.org: Bolivia Catalogue: Lacunaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 29 January 2019.
Lacunaria in Flora do Brasil 2020 em construção. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro. Accessed: 29 January 2019.

Lacunaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ochnaceae.

There are 7 to 8 species recognized, including :[1][2]

Lacunaria crenata
Lacunaria grandifolia
Lacunaria jenmanii
Lacunaria macrostachya
Lacunaria oppositifolia
Lacunaria panamensis
Lacunaria sampaioi
Lacunaria umbonata

References

Schneider, J. V. and G. Zizka. 2012. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Lacunaria (Quiinaceae/Ochnaceae s. l.). Systematic Botany 37(1), 165-188.
Lacunaria. The Plant List. Accessed 30 March 2020.