Apteria
Apteria | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Monocots |
Order: | Dioscoreales |
Family: | Burmanniaceae |
Genus: | Apteria Urb. |
Binomial name | |
Apteria aphylla (Nutt.) Barnhart ex Small | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Apteria is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1834. It contains only one known species, Apteria aphylla, the nodding-nixie, native to the southern United States (E Texas to S Georgia), Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
References
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- ↑ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
- ↑ Flora of North America, Vol. 26 Page 488, 489, Nodding-nixie, Apteria aphylla (Nuttall) Barnhart ex Small, Fl. S.E. U.S. 309. 1903.
- ↑ US Department of Agriculture plants profile
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