Heliocarpus

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Heliocarpus
File:Heliocarpus sp Costa Rica 1.jpg
Heliocarpus sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Grewioideae
Genus: Heliocarpus
L.
Synonyms

Montia Mill. in Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. 4.: s.p. (1754), nom. illeg.

Heliocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It was formerly classified in the Tiliaceae.[1]

It was first published in Linnaeus's book Species Plantarum on page 448 in 1753.[2]

The native range of this genus stretches from Mexico to southern Tropical America and the island of Trinidad. It is found in the countries of Argentina , Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuela.[2]

Species

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According to Plants of the World Online (Kew) it contains;[2]

GRIN only lists Heliocarpus americanus L.[3]

Ecology

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In Veracruz in Mexico, a species of rust fungus Pucciniosira pallidula (Speg.) Henn. (1896) infects Heliocarpus donnellsmithii Rose.[4]

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