Yeatesia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Acanthaceae
Subfamilia: Acanthoideae
Tribus: Justicieae
Genus: Yeatesia
Species: Y. mabryi – Y. platystegia – Y. viridiflora
Source(s) of checklist:

Hassler, M. 2018. Yeatesia. 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 Jun. 18. Reference page.

Name

Yeatesia Small, 1896
References

Small, J.K., Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 23(10): 410. 1896.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Yeatesia. 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 Jun. 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Yeatesia. Published online. Accessed: Jun. 18 2018.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Yeatesia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jun. 18. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2018. Yeatesia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jun. 18.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Yeatesia. .

Vernacular names
English: Bractspike

Yeatesia is a putative genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae, found in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States, from Texas to Florida. Each of its species grows in very different habitats; Yeatesia mabryi is found in hardwood forests in Mexico, Y. platystegia prefers semiarid scrublands in Mexico and Texas, and Y. viridiflora grows in wetter forest bluffs and along water courses in US Gulf Coast states. Molecular evidence shows that Yeatesia is not a monophyletic genus.[3]

Species

Currently accepted species include:[2]

Yeatesia mabryi Hilsenb.
Yeatesia platystegia (Torr.) Hilsenb.
Yeatesia viridiflora (Nees) Small

References

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23: 410 (1896)
"Yeatesia Small". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
Kiel, Carrie A.; McDade, Lucinda A. (2014). "The Mirandea Clade (Acanthaceae, Justicieae, Tetramerium Lineage): Phylogenetic Signal from Molecular Data and Micromorphology Makes Sense of Taxonomic Confusion Caused by Remarkable Diversity of Floral Form". Systematic Botany. 39 (3): 950–964. doi:10.1600/036364414X681446. S2CID 86386856.