Crusea (common name saucer flower)[1] is a genus of angiosperms (flowering plants) in the family Rubiaceae.[2] The genus is found in the south-western United States (Arizona and New Mexico), Mexico, and Central America. A few species are naturalized in Cuba and Puerto Rico.[3]
| Crusea | |
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| Crusea longiflora | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Rubioideae |
| Tribe: | Spermacoceae |
| Genus: | Crusea Schltdl. & Cham. |
| Type species | |
| Crusea rubra (syn. of Crusea hispida) | |
Species edit
- Crusea andersoniorum Lorence – Oaxaca
- Crusea calcicola Greenm – San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Honduras
- Crusea calocephala DC. – widespread from Tamaulipas to Honduras
- Crusea coccinea DC.
- Crusea coronata B.L.Rob. & Greenm. – from Sonora to Oaxaca
- Crusea diversifolia (Kunth) W.R.Anderson – widespread from Arizona and New Mexico to Guatemala
- Crusea hispida (Mill.) Rob.
- Crusea hispida var. grandiflora (Paul G.Wilson) W.R.Anderson – Guerrero, México State, Distrito Federal
- Crusea hispida var. hispida – widespread across much of Mexico and naturalized in Cuba
- Crusea longiflora (Roem. & Schult.) W.R.Anderson – widespread across much of Mexico and naturalized in Puerto Rico
- Crusea lucida Benth. – Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, Michoacán, Guerrero
- Crusea megalocarpa (A.Gray) S.Watson – widespread across much of Mexico
- Crusea parviflora Hook. & Arn. – widespread across much of Mexico, south to Nicaragua
- Crusea psyllioides (Kunth) W.R.Anderson – widespread across much of Mexico
- Crusea pulcherrima Borhidi & Salas-Mor. – Oaxaca
- Crusea setosa (M.Martens & Galeotti) Standl. & Steyerm. – widespread across much of Mexico, south to Nicaragua
- Crusea wrightii A.Gray
- Crusea wrightii var. angustifolia W.R.Anderson – central and southern Mexico
- Crusea wrightii var. wrightii – widespread across much of Mexico, north into Arizona
References edit
- ^ USDA plants profile, Crusea diversifolia
- ^ Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal & Ludolf Karl Adelbert von Chamisso. 1830. Linnaea 5(1): 165
- ^ Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera. 2012. Rubiaceae a Verbenaceae. 4(2): i–xvi, 1–533. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez, S. Knapp & F. Chiang Cabrera (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
External links edit
- Crusea in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
- Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness, Western New Mexico University
- Irekani, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Gardening Europe
- Photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of Crusea wrightii var. angustifolia, collected in Guerrero