Isertia

Isertia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 15 species of shrubs or small trees that are indigenous to the neotropics.[1] A few are cultivated as ornamentals.[2]

Isertia
Isertia haenkeana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Cinchonoideae
Tribe: Isertieae
Genus: Isertia
Schreb.
Type species
Isertia coccinea
Synonyms

Systematics

Isertia was named by Johann von Schreber in 1789.[3] The generic name honors the German botanist and explorer Paul Erdmann Isert.[4]

Isertia is divided into two sections: section Cassupa and section Isertia. In section Cassupa, the fruit is a berry and the ovary usually has two or three locules. In section Isertia, the fruit is a pyrene and the ovary usually has five or six locules.[5]

Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that Isertia is most closely related to Kerianthera, a monospecific genus from Amazonian Brazil.[6]

Species

References

  1. "Isertia in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved 19 April 2017.
  2. Huxley AJ, Griffiths M, Levy M, 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
  3. Schreber J (1789). Genera Plantarum Eorumque Characteres Naturales Secundum Numerum, Figuram, Situm, & Proportionem Omnium Fructificationis Partium. 1 (8 ed.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany. p. 234.
  4. Quattrocchi U (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. 1. Boca Raton, New York, Washington DC, London: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2675-2.
  5. Boom BM (1984). "A revision of Isertia (Isertieae: Rubiaceae)". Brittonia. 36 (4): 425–454. doi:10.2307/2806603. JSTOR 2806603. S2CID 56226559.
  6. Manns U, Bremer B (2010). "Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56 (1): 21–39. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.002. PMID 20382247.
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