Tupistra

Tupistra
Tupistra chinensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asparagaceae
Subfamily: Convallarioideae
Genus: Tupistra
Baker
Synonyms
  • Macrostigma Kunth
  • Platymetra Noronha ex Salisb.
  • Tricalistra Ridl.

Tupistra is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants found in south Asia, from southern China to Sumatra and Ambon Island. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Convallarioideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae).

Species

As of August 2013, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) recognized 21 species:

  1. Tupistra clarkei Hook.f. - Nepal, Sikkim
  2. Tupistra elegans N.Tanaka - Perak
  3. Tupistra fungilliformis F.T.Wang & S.Yun Liang - Yunnan, Guangxi
  4. Tupistra grandis Ridl. - Malaysia
  5. Tupistra grandistigma F.T.Wang & S.Yun Liang - Guangxi, Yunnan, Vietnam
  6. Tupistra kressii N.Tanaka - Thailand
  7. Tupistra laotica N.Tanaka - Laos
  8. Tupistra malaiana N.Tanaka - Thailand, Malaysia
  9. Tupistra muricata (Gagnep.) N.Tanaka - Laos, Thailand, Yunnan, Guangxi
  10. Tupistra nutans Wall. ex Lindl. - Assam, Bangladesh
  11. Tupistra ochracea (Ridl.) N.Tanaka - Malaysia
  12. Tupistra penangensis N.Tanaka - Penang Island
  13. Tupistra pingbianensis J.L.Huang & X.Z.Liu - Yunnan
  14. Tupistra robusta N.Tanaka - Perak
  15. Tupistra squalida Ker Gawl. - Ambon
  16. Tupistra stoliczana Kurz - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
  17. Tupistra sumatrensis N.Tanaka - Sumatra
  18. Tupistra theana Aver. & N.Tanaka - Vietnam
  19. Tupistra tupistroides (Kunth) Dandy - Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam
  20. Tupistra urceolata N.Tanaka & W.J.Kress - Thailand
  21. Tupistra violacea Ridl. - Thailand, Malaysia

According to WCSP, the following are synonyms:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Tupistra", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2013-08-03
  2. ↑ Tanaka, N. (2010), A taxonomic revision of the genus Tupistra (Asparagaceae), Makinoa n.s., 9: 55-93.
  3. ↑ Flora of China, Vol. 24 Page 239, 长柱开口箭属 chang zhu kai kou jian shu, Tupistra Ker Gawler, Bot. Mag. 40: t. 1655. 1814.
  4. ↑ Chase, M.W.; Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. (2009), "A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 132–136, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x