Pisonia

Pisonia brunoniana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Nyctaginaceae
Tribus: Pisonieae
Genus: Pisonia
Species: P. aculeata – P. albida – P. ambigua – P. byrsonimifolia – P. calafia – P. capitata – P. costata – P. donnellsmithii – P. ekmanii – P. flavescens – P. floribunda – P. grandis – P. horneae – P. indecora – P. jamaicensis – P. macranthocarpa – P. margaretiae – P. ochracea – P. petenensis – P. petiolaris – P. proctorii – P. roqueae – P. rotundata – P. silvatica – P. subcordata – P. taina – P. zapallo

Source(s) of checklist:
Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Pisonia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 August 06. Reference page.

Name

Pisonia L., 1753

• Lectotype species: Pisonia aculeata L. (designated by E.W. Berry, Profess. Pap. U.S. Geol. Surv. 91: 214. 7 Sep 1916)

Synonyms

• Heterotypic
  • Columella Vell. in Fl. Flumin.: 155 (1829)
  • Pallavia Vell. in Fl. Flumin.: 151 (1829)
  • Tragularia J.Koenig ex Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 2: 217 (1832)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental:Cosmopolitan' Regional: Tropical & Subtropical Aldabra, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Chagos Archipelago, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, Galápagos, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Line Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Maluku, Marcus I., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niue, Northern Territory, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Society Is., Solomon Is., South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen Introduced into: Bangladesh, Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nansei-shoto, Nigeria, Sudan, Trinidad-Tobago References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 1026. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. 2021. The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8(215): 1–10. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Reference page. 

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Pisonia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 August 06. Reference page. 
• International Plant Names Index. 2024. Pisonia. Published online. Accessed: August 06 2024.
• Hassler, M. 2024. Pisonia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2024. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2024 August 06. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2024. Pisonia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 06 August 2024.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Pisonie
English: Catchbirdtrees
suomi: Pisoniat
русский: Пизония

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