Verbenaceae

Petrea L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 626 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Florida to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

East Himalaya, Gambia, Marshall Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 2012 Saint-Hilaire [s.n.] Brazil K000944146 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Smith, C. [4] Brazil K000944134 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Prance, G.T.; Silva, N.T. [59470] Brazil K000944139 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Burchell [3042] Brazil K000944142 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Traill, J.W.H. [669] Brazil K000944137 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Gardner [5127] Brazil K000944144 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 s.coll. [s.n.] Brazil K000944136 Yes
Jan 1, 2012 Burchell [3042] Brazil K000944140 Yes
Oct 1, 1968 Hatschbach, G.G. [18074] Brazil K000944149 Yes
Ferreira, V.F. [1715] Brazil K000944119 Yes
Raimundo, S.P. [1131] Brazil K000013871 Yes
Moura, O.T. [521] Brazil K000013872 Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images