Monteverdia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Celastraceae
Genus: Monteverdia
Species: M. acanthophylla – M. agostinii – M. amazonica – M. apiculata – M. apurimacensis – M. aquifolium – M. ardisiifolia – M. basidentata – M. belizensis – M. brasiliensis – M. buxifolia – M. cassineformis – M. cassinoides – M. catingarum – M. cestrifolia – M. chapadensis – M. chiapensis – M. clarendonensis – M. communis – M. comocladiiformis – M. corei – M. crassipes – M. cuzcoina – M. cymosa – M. dasyclados – M. distichophylla – M. domingensis – M. duqueana – M. ebenifolia – M. eggersii – M. elaeodendroides – M. elongata – M. erythroxylon – M. evonymoides – M. ficiformis – M. flagellata – M. floribunda – M. fugax – M. glaucescens – M. gonoclada – M. grenadensis – M. guyanensis – M. haitiensis – M. harrisii – M. horrida – M. hotteana – M. huberi – M. ilicifolia – M. imbricata – M. insculpta – M. jamaicensis – M. jefeana – M. kanukuensis – M. karstenii – M. krukovii – M. laevigata – M. laevis – M. laurina – M. lineata – M. littoralis – M. loeseneri – M. longifolia – M. longistipitata – M. lucayana – M. macrocarpa – M. macrophylla – M. maestrensis – M. manabiensis – M. matudae – M. megalocarpa – M. meguillensis – M. microcarpa – M. microphylla – M. monticola – M. mucugensis – M. myrsinoides – M. neblinae – M. nitida – M. oblongata – M. obtusifolia – M. ocoensis – M. opaca – M. patens – M. peruana – M. pittieriana – M. planifolia – M. ponceana – M. pruinosa – M. psammophila – M. purpusii – M. pustulata – M. quadrangulata – M. radlkoferiana – M. recondita – M. reflexa – M. retusa – M. revoluta – M. rigida – M. robusta – M. rupestris – M. samydiformis – M. sapotiformis – M. saxicola – M. schippii – M. schumanniana – M. segoviarum – M. serpentini – M. sieberiana – M. spinosa – M. splendens – M. sprucei – M. stipitata – M. subalata – M. tetragona – M. tikalensis – M. truncata – M. urbaniana – M. urbanii – M. urquiolae – M. versluysii – M. virens – M. wendtii
Name

Monteverdia A.Rich., Hist. Phys. Cuba, Pl. Vasc. 346. (1845)

Type species: Monteverdia buxifolia A. Rich., Hist. Phys. Cuba, Pl. Vasc. 347, t. 36. (1845)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Moya Griseb., Abh. Konigl. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen 19: 111. (1874)
Type species: Moya spinosa Griseb., Abh. Konigl. Ges. Wiss. Gottingen 19: 111, t. 1, f. 3a-e. (1874)

Note: Govaerts et al. (2019) do not accept the segregation of this genus from Maytenus, as accepted by Biral et al., (2017) & Hassler, (2019).
References

Richard, A. 1845. Histoire Physique, Politique et Naturelle de l'Ile de Cuba ... Botanique 346.
Biral, L., Simmons, M.P., Smidt, E.C., Tembrock, L.R., Bolson, M., Archer, R.H. & Lombardi, J.A. 2017. Systematics of New World Maytenus (Celastraceae) and a New Delimitation of the Genus. Systematic Botany 42(4): 680-693. DOI: 10.1600/036364417X696456 Paywall. PDF Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Monteverdia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Sept. 29. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Monteverdia. 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 online. Accessed: 2019 Oct. 3. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Monteverdia. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 29 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Monteverdia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 29 Sept. 2019.

Monteverdia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae.

In a taxonomic review, Leonardo Biral et al. (2017) in Systematic Botany 42 (4), reclassified 123 species of Maytenus now placed in the genus Monteverdia.[1]
Selected species

Some of the 123 especies are:

Monteverdia buxifolia A.Rich., 1845
Monteverdia eggersii (Loes.) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia harrisii (Krug & Urb.) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia laevis (Reissek) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia macrocarpa (Ruiz & Pav.) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia manabiensis (Loes.) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia matudae (Lundell) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia microcarpa (Fawc. & Rendle) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia multicostata Cornejo & Biral, 2021 [2]
Monteverdia pittieriana (Steyerm.) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia ponceana (Britt.) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia robusta (Reissek) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia spinosa ((Griseb.) Lourteig & O'Donell) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia stipitata (Lundell) Biral, 2017
Monteverdia zakii Biral & Cornejo, 2021 [3]

References

Biral, Leonardo; Simmons, Mark P.; Smidt, Eric C.; Tembrock, Luke R.; Bolson, Mônica; Archer, Robert H.; Lombardi, Julio A. (December 18, 2017). "Systematics of New World Maytenus (Celastraceae) and a New Delimitation of the Genus". Systematic Botany. 42 (4): 680–693. doi:10.1600/036364417X696456. ISSN 0363-6445. S2CID 53121214.
Biral, Leonardo; Cornejo, Xavier (2021-01-08). "Two new species of Monteverdia (Celastraceae) from Ecuador". Phytotaxa. 479 (2): 183–190. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.479.2.4.
Biral, Leonardo; Cornejo, Xavier (2021-01-08). "Two new species of Monteverdia (Celastraceae) from Ecuador". Phytotaxa. 479 (2): 183–190. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.479.2.4.