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Genus of flowering plants
Chiococca is a
genus of
flowering plants in the
family
Rubiaceae .
[1] It currently holds 23
species that are
native to
Florida ,
Texas ,
Mexico ,
Central America , much of
South America , the
West Indies , and the islands of
Galápagos and
Fernando de Noronha .
[2]
[3]
[4]
The
type species for the genus is
Chiococca alba .
[5] It
ranges from Florida to
Paraguay and is
cultivated as an
ornamental .
[6]
Systematics
Chiococca was
named by
Patrick Browne in 1756.
[1] The
generic name is
derived from the
Greek words χιών (chion ), meaning "snow" and κόκκος (kokkos ), meaning "kernel" or "berry".
[7]
Chiococca is a member of the
tribe
Chiococceae .
[8] Within the tribe, it is closely
related to
Bikkia .
[9]
Species
Chiococca alba (
L. )
Hitchc. -
Florida ,
Texas ,
Bermuda ,
Mexico ,
Central America , much of
South America , the
West Indies , and the
Galápagos
Chiococca auyantepuiensis
Steyerm. -
Venezuela
Chiococca belizensis
Lundell - Southern
Mexico (
Tabasco ,
Chiapas ,
Oaxaca ,
Veracruz ),
Central America ,
Colombia
Chiococca caputensis Lorence & C.M.Taylor -
Panamá
Chiococca coriacea M.Martens & Galeotti -
México (
Tamaulipas ,
Veracruz ,
Quintana Roo )
Chiococca cubensis
Urb. -
Cuba
Chiococca filipes
Lundell -
Central America ,
México (
Chiapas )
Chiococca henricksonii M.C.Johnst. -
México (
Coahuila )
Chiococca insularis (Ridley) C.M.Taylor & M.R.V. Barbosa -
Fernando de Noronha ,
Brazil
[4]
Chiococca lucens
Standl. &
Steyerm. -
Venezuela (
Sororopán-tepui )
Chiococca motleyana
Borhidi -
Belize ,
Guatemala ,
México
Chiococca multipedunculata
Steyerm. -
Guyana
Chiococca naiguatensis
Steyerm. -
Venezuela
Chiococca nitida
Benth.
Chiococca oaxacana
Standl. -
Mexico (
Tamaulipas ,
Morelos ,
Puebla ,
Oaxaca )
Chiococca pachyphylla Wernham -
Mexico (from
Nuevo León to
Chiapas ),
Central America ,
Colombia
Chiococca petrina Wiggins -
Mexico (
Sonora )
Chiococca phaenostemon
Schltdl. - Southern
Mexico (
Chiapas ,
Oaxaca ,
Veracruz ,
Guerrero ),
Central America
Chiococca plowmanii Delprete -
Brazil (
Bahia )
Chiococca rubriflora
Lundell -
Mexico (
Chiapas ),
Guatemala
Chiococca semipilosa
Standl. &
Steyerm. -
Mexico ,
Guatemala ,
Honduras ,
El Salvador ,
Nicaragua )
Chiococca sessilifolia Miranda -
Mexico (
Veracruz ,
Chiapas )
Chiococca steyermarkii
Standl. -
Guatemala
Chiococca stricta Correll -
Bahamas
References
^
a
b
Browne, Patrick. 1756. Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in Three Parts 164, Chiococca
^ Mabberley DJ (2008). Mabberley's Plant Book (3rd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-82071-4 .
^
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Chiococca
^
a
b Figueira, Maurício; Schindler, Bianca; Jardim, Jomar G.; Barbosa, Maria Regina de V. (2020-10-30).
"Rediscovery of Chiococca insularis (Ridley) C.M.Taylor & M.R.V. Barbosa (Rubiaceae), a species presumed extinct, on the island of Fernando de Noronha, Pernambuco, Brazil" . Check List . 16 (5): 1407–1413.
doi :
10.15560/16.5.1407 .
ISSN
1809-127X .
^ Chiococca In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In:
Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
^ Anthony J. Huxley, Mark Griffiths, and Margot Levy (editors). 1992. The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening. The Macmillan Press Limited, London; The Stockton Press, New York.
ISBN
978-0-333-47494-5 (set)
^ Quattrocchi U (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names . Vol. 1. Boca Raton, New York, Washington DC, London: CRC Press.
ISBN
978-0-8493-2675-2 .
^
"Genus Chiococca " . Taxonomy . UniProt. Retrieved 2009-12-11 .
^ Manns U, Bremer B (2010).
"Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae)" (PDF) . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 56 (1): 21–39.
doi :
10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.002 .
PMID
20382247 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2011-09-27.
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