Tinantia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Commelinaless

Familia: Commelinaceae
Subfamilia: Commelinoideae
Tribus: Tradescantieae
Subtribus: Thyrsantheminae
Genus: Tinantia
Species: T. anomala – T. caribaea – T. erecta – T. glabra – T. leiocalyx – T. longipedunculata – T. macrophylla – T. parviflora – T. pringlei – T. sprucei – T. standleyi – T. umbellata – T. violacea
Name

Tinantia Scheidw., Allg. Gartenzeitung 7: 365 (1839), nom. cons.

Type species: Tinantia erecta (Jacq.) Fenzl, Index Seminum (WU) 1849-1850: 10 (1851) Designated as synonym Tinantia fugax Scheidw., Allg. Gartenzeitung 7: 365 (1839)

Synonyms

Homonyms
Tinantia Dumort. Anal. Fam. Pl. 58. (1829) (Iridaceae Juss.) nom. rej., non Scheidw. (1839)
Tinantia M. Martens & Galeotti Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 11(1): 240. (1844) (Nyctaginaceae Juss.) non Dumort. (1829), nec Scheidw. (1839) (nom. cons.)
Heterotypic
Pogomesia Raf., Fl. Tellur. 3: 67 (1837)
Commelinantia Tharp, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 49: 272 (1922)

References

Scheidweiler, M.J.F. (1839) Allgemeine Gartenzeitung 7: 365. BHL

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Tinantia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2015 Sept. 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Tinantia. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 2 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Tinantia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 2 Sept. 2015.

Tinantia is a genus of plants in the Commelinaceae, first described in 1839. They are commonly called widow's tears or false dayflowers due to their resemblance of the closely related true dayflowers of the genus Commelina.[2] Tinantia is native to North and South America from Texas + Hispaniola to Argentina, with a center of diversity from Mexico to Nicaragua.[1][2][3][4][5] Tinantia pringlei, an alpine native of Mexico, is grown as an ornamental in temperate areas and is also a common greenhouse weed.

The genus was named in honour of François Tinant, a Luxembourger forester.[2]

Species[1]

Tinantia anomala (Torr.) C.B.Clarke - Texas, Durango
Tinantia caribaea Urb. - Lesser Antilles, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia
Tinantia erecta (Jacq.) Fenzl - widespread from central Mexico to Argentina; naturalized in Azores, Madeira, Java, Angola, northern India
Tinantia glabra (Standl. & Steyerm.) Rohweder - southern Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela
Tinantia leiocalyx C.B.Clarke ex J.D.Sm. - central + southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
Tinantia longipedunculata Standl. & Steyerm. - central + southern Mexico, Central America
Tinantia macrophylla S.Wats. - Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango, Jalisco
Tinantia parviflora Rohweder - central + southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia
Tinantia pringlei (S.Watson) Rohweder - Tamaulipas, Nuevo León
Tinantia sprucei C.B.Clarke - Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Brazil
Tinantia standleyi Steyerm. - central + southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, southern Brazil
Tinantia umbellata (Vahl) Urb. - Guyana, Venezuela
Tinantia violacea Rohweder - southern Mexico, Central America

References

Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Faden, Robert (2006), "Tinantia", in Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+ (ed.), Flora of North America online, vol. 22, New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 2007-06-21
Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater. 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. 6: i–xvi, 1–543. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D. F.
Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii