Oplonia

Oplonia
Oplonia spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Acanthaceae
Subfamily:	Acanthoideae
Tribe:	Justicieae
Genus:	Oplonia Raf. (1838)
Synonyms
Anthacanthus Nees (1847) Crateola Raf. (1838) Forsythiopsis Baker (1883) Hesperanthemum Kuntze (1891)

Oplonia is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes 21 species native to western South America (Peru, Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina), the Caribbean, and Madagascar.

Species

21 species are accepted.

• Oplonia acicularis (Sw.) Stearn
• Oplonia acuminata Stearn
• Oplonia acunae Borhidi
• Oplonia armata (Sw.) Stearn
• Oplonia cubensis Borhidi
• Oplonia grandiflora (Lindau) Stearn
• Oplonia hutchisonii Wassh.
• Oplonia jamaicensis (Lindau) Stearn
• Oplonia jujuyensis Wassh. & C.Ezcurra
• Oplonia linifolia (Benoist) Stearn
• Oplonia microphylla (Lam.) Stearn
• Oplonia minor (Benoist) Stearn
• Oplonia moana Borhidi
• Oplonia multigemma Borhidi
• Oplonia nannophylla (Urb.) Stearn
• Oplonia polyece (Stearn) Borhidi
• Oplonia puberula Stearn
• Oplonia purpurascens (Griseb.) Stearn
• Oplonia spinosa (Jacq.) Raf.
• Oplonia tetrasticha (C.Wright ex Griseb.) Stearn
• Oplonia vincoides (Lam.) Stearn

External links

• GBIF entry
• ITIS entry
• JSTOR Plant Science entries
• USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) entry
• USDA PLANTS entry
• Stearn, W. T. 1971. A survey of the tropical genera Oplonia and Psilanthele (Acanthaceae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 4:259–323.