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Taxon: Hamelia patens Jacq.

 
Genus: Hamelia
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Hamelieae
Nomen number: 18240
Place of publication: Enum. syst. pl. 16. 1760 (Select. stirp. amer. hist. 72, t. 50. 1763)
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 31-Aug-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: boundary/barrier/support (a hedge plant) ornamental
  • Medicines:
  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Northern America
    • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida (s.)]
    • NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas]
    • SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, México, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán]

    Southern America
    • CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, [Barbuda] Bahamas, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Vincent and Grenadines, [Saint Vincent] United States [Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, U.S.]
    • CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
    • NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela (n.)
    • BRAZIL: Brazil [Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Distrito Federal]
    • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
    • SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Chaco, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta] Paraguay


    Cultivated

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India


References:

  1. Cabrera, A. L., dir. 1977-. Flora de la provincia de Jujuy, República Argentina.
  2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. 1959. The wealth of India: a dictionary of Indian raw materials and industrial products. Raw materials. 5:5-6.
  3. Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
  4. Elias, T. S. 1976. A monograph of the genus Hamelia (Rubiaceae). Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 26(4):101-116.
  5. Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
  6. Howard, R. A. 1973. The Enumeratio and Selectarum of Nicolaus von Jacquin. J. Arnold Arbor. 54:435-470.
  7. Howard, R. 1974-1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
  8. Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource). URL: http://www.conabio.gob.mx/malezasdemexico/rubiaceae/hamelia-patens/fichas/pagina1.htm target='_blank'

Check other web resources for Hamelia patens Jacq. :

  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=18240. Accessed 6 July 2024.