Pentalinon

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: Apocynoideae
Tribus: Echiteae
Subtribus: Pentalinoninae
Genus: Pentalinon
Species: P. andrieuxii – P. luteum
Name

Pentalinon Voigt, (1845).

Typus: P. suberectum Voigt = P. luteum
(L.) B.F. Hansen & Wunderlin

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Urechites Müll.Arg., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 18: 22. (1860)
Typus: U. karwinskii Müller Arg.
Chariomma Miers, Apocyn. South Amer. 110. (1878)
Typus: C. surrecta Miers, nom. illeg.

References

Voigt, J.J.O. 1845. Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 523.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Pentalinon in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2011 Jan 05.
Hassler, M. 2018. Pentalinon. 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. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Sep 21. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Pentalinon in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Sep 21. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Pentalinon. Published online. Accessed: Sep 21 2018.

Pentalinon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1845. It is native to the West Indies, Central America, Mexico, and Florida.[1]

Species[1]

Pentalinon andrieuxii (Müll.Arg.) B.F.Hansen & Wunderlin - Hidalgo, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
Pentalinon luteum (L.) B.F.Hansen & Wunderlin - Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Turks & Caicos Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles, Jamaica, islands of western Caribbean, S Florida

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families