Vailia

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: Vailia
Species: V. mucronata
Name

Vailia Rusby, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 500. (1898)

Type species: Vailia mucronata Rusby, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 25: 500. (1898)

Note: Vailia anomala (Brandegee) W.D.Stevens, Phytoneuron 2018-3: 2. (2018) was recently allocated to this genus from Blepharodon Decne. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 8: 603. (1844), as a renaming of Blepharodon mucronatum (Schltdl.) Decne. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 8: 603 (1844) (Stevens, 2018). However, this has resulted in emended descriptions of both genera, which requires further work on them and the subtribe before it will be fully accepted (WCSP cf. Hassler, 2022).
References

Rusby, H.H. 1898. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 25: 500.
Stevens, W.D. 2018. Vailia anomala, a new name for Blepharodon mucronatum (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae). Phytoneuron 3: 1-5. PDF
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Vailia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Apr. 10. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2022. Vailia. 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. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 Apr. 10. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Vailia. Published online. Accessed: Apr. 10 2022.
Tropicos.org 2022. Vailia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: {{{3}}} Apr. 10 2022.