Taxonomic revision of Rochefortia Sw. (Ehretiaceae, Boraginales).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rochefortia is a small taxon of woody plants in the Ehretiaceae (Boraginales) exhibiting coriaceous leaves with cystoliths, small whitish flowers and drupaceous fruits containing four pyrenes. It shares the dioecious sex distribution with its sister group Lepidocordia and can be delimited from the latter (and all other Ehretiaceae) by the presence of thorns. Neotropical Rochefortia is distributed over most Caribbean islands, Central America and northern South America. Twenty-eight validly published names (corresponding to twenty-one typified taxa at the species level and below) are available in Rochefortia, but the precise number of species to be accepted has been elusive before this revision.

New information

In the course of the present revision, 353 herbarium co

SUBMITTER: Irimia RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4910500 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature