Vesalea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Dipsacales

Familia: Caprifoliaceae
Subfamilia: Linnaeoideae
Genus: Vesalea
Species: V. coriacea – V. floribunda – V. grandifolia – V. mexicana – V. occidentalis
Name

Vesalea M.Martens & Galeotti (1844)

Type species: non design.

Synonyms

Homotypic
Abelia group Vesalea (M. Martens & Galeotti) Zabel
Abelia sect. Vesalea (M. Martens & Galeotti) Fukuoka
Abelia subsect. Vesalea (M. Martens & Galeotti) Rehder

Note: This genus can be subsumed into an expanded Abelia on morphology, but is maintained as a segregate on the grounds of phylogeny and disjunct biogeography by Wang et al. (2015).
References

Martens, M. & Galeotti, H.G. 1844. Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles 11(1): 241.
Hassler, M. 2019. Vesalea. 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 Aug. 16. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Vesalea. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 16 2019.
Wang, H.-F., Landrein, S., Dong, W.-P., Nie, Z.-L., Kondo, K., Funamoto, T., Wen, J., & Zhou, S.-L. 2015. Molecular phylogeny and biogeographic diversification of Linnaeoideae (Caprifoliaceae s.l.) disjunctly distributed in Eurasia, North America and Mexico. PLoS ONE 10(3):e0116485. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116485 Open access Reference page.