Tibouchina Aubl.
First published in Hist. Pl. Guiane 1: 445 (1775)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is S. Mexico to S. Tropical America.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northwest, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela
Introduced into:
Trinidad-Tobago
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Savastania Scop. in Intr. Hist. Nat.: 213 (1777), nom. superfl.
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Bractearia DC. ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 222 (1840), not validly publ.
- Gynomphis Raf. in Sylva Tellur.: 98 (1838)
Accepted Species
- Tibouchina aegopogon (Naudin) Cogn.
- Tibouchina albescens Cogn. ex P.J.F.Guim., A.L.F.Oliveira & R.Romero
- Tibouchina araguaiensis P.J.F.Guim.
- Tibouchina aspera Aubl.
- Tibouchina barbigera (Naudin) Baill.
- Tibouchina bicolor (Naudin) Cogn.
- Tibouchina bipenicillata (Naudin) Cogn.
- Tibouchina brevisepala Cogn.
- Tibouchina bruniana P.J.F.Guim.
- Tibouchina calycina Cogn.
- Tibouchina catharinae Pittier
- Tibouchina cujabensis Cogn.
- Tibouchina dissitiflora Wurdack
- Tibouchina duidae Gleason
- Tibouchina edmundoi Brade
- Tibouchina exasperata (Naudin) Cogn.
- Tibouchina fraterna N.E.Br.
- Tibouchina huberi Wurdack
- Tibouchina itatiaiae Cogn.
- Tibouchina johnwurdackiana Todzia
- Tibouchina karstenii Cogn.
- Tibouchina lithophila Wurdack
- Tibouchina llanorum Wurdack
- Tibouchina mathaei Cogn.
- Tibouchina melastomoides (Naudin) Cogn.
- Tibouchina nigricans Cogn. ex P.J.F.Guim., A.L.F.Oliveira & R.Romero
- Tibouchina octopetala Cogn.
- Tibouchina papyrus (Pohl) Toledo
- Tibouchina pogonanthera (Naudin) Cogn.
- Tibouchina rosanae P.J.F.Guim. & Woodgyer
- Tibouchina sickii Brade
- Tibouchina sipapoana Gleason
- Tibouchina spruceana Cogn.
- Tibouchina steyermarkii Wurdack
- Tibouchina striphnocalyx (DC.) Pittier
- Tibouchina verticillaris Cogn.
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images