Agarista_(plant)

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Agarista (plant)

Genus of flowering plants

This article is about the plant. For other uses, see Agarista (disambiguation).

Agarista is a genus of plants in the family Ericaceae. Agarista species contain grayanotoxins, a group of closely related neurotoxins named after Leucothoe grayana, native to Japan.[1]

Agarista buxifolia

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Species

  • Agarista boliviensis - from South America,[2]
  • Agarista buxifolia - from Réunion
  • Agarista eucalyptoides
  • Agarista populifolia (Lam.) Judd—Florida hobblebush
  • Agarista salicifolia - from Réunion

There are also about 10 species endemic to Madagascar which are to be transferred to this genus from Agauria.[3]

Plants of the World Online, accepts 32 species, as of January 2022.[4]

Taxonomy

The genus name of Agarista is in honour of Agariste of Sicyon (fl. 6th century BC, around 560 BC).[5] It was first described and published in Gen. Hist. Vol.3 on page 837 in 1834.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Senning A (2007). Elsevier's Dictionary of Chemoetymology. Amsterdam: Elsevier. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-444-52239-9.
  2. [2]
    "Agarista boliviensis (Sleumer) Judd". Bolivia checklist.
  3. [3]
    "Agarista D. Don ex G. Don". Madagascar Catalogue.
  4. [4]
    "Agarista D.Don ex G.Don | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  5. [5]
    Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
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