Thevetia

Thevetia
	Thevetia ahouai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Rauvolfioideae
Tribe:	Plumerieae
Subtribe:	Thevetiinae
Genus:	Thevetia; L.
Synonyms
	Ahouai Mill.; Plumeriopsis Rusby & Woodson;

Thevetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described for modern science as a genus in 1758. It is native to Mexico, Central America, South America, and Cuba.^[1] The taxonomy of the genus is controversial, with some authors including Cascabela within Thevetia, while others accept the two genera as separate.^[2]

Fruit and leaf detail of *Thevetia ahouai*

Species^[1]

Thevetia ahouai (L.) A.DC. - Mexico, Central America, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia
Thevetia amazonica Ducke - Brazil, Bolivia
Thevetia bicornuta Müll.Arg. - Brazil, Paraguay, NE Argentina

formerly included^[1]

Thevetia alliodora = Cascabela ovata
Thevetia cuneifolia = Cascabela ovata
Thevetia gaumeri = Cascabela gaumeri
Thevetia humboldtii (Kunth) Voigt 1845 not R.H. Schomb. 1840 = Cascabela thevetioides
Thevetia linearis = Cascabela thevetia
Thevetia neriifolia = Cascabela thevetia
Thevetia ovata = Cascabela ovata
Thevetia peruviana = Cascabela thevetia
Thevetia pinifolia = Cascabela pinifolia
Thevetia plumeriifolia = Cascabela ovata
Thevetia spathulata = Cascabela gaumeri
Thevetia steerei = Cascabela gaumeri
Thevetia thevetia = Cascabela thevetia
Thevetia thevetioides = Cascabela thevetioides
Thevetia yccotli = Cascabela thevetioides

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Retrieved May 17, 2014.
^ Leonardo O. Alvarado-Cárdenas and José Carmen Soto Núñez (2014). "A new species of Cascabela (Apocynaceae; Rauvolfioideae, Plumerieae) from Michoacán, Mexico" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 177 (3): 163–170. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.177.3.4.

External links

Media related to Thevetia at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Thevetia at Wikispecies
USDA Plants Profile

[WCSP-1] "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Retrieved May 17, 2014.

[2] Leonardo O. Alvarado-Cárdenas and José Carmen Soto Núñez (2014). "A new species of Cascabela (Apocynaceae; Rauvolfioideae, Plumerieae) from Michoacán, Mexico" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 177 (3): 163–170. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.177.3.4.

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