''Mascagnia'' is a

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in the

Malpighiaceae Malpighiaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. It comprises about 73 genera and 1315 species, all of which are native to the tropics and subtropics. About 80% of the genera and 90% of the species occur in the New World ( ...

, a

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of about 75 genera of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

s in the order

Malpighiales The Malpighiales comprise one of the largest orders of flowering plants, containing about 36 families and more than species, about 7.8% of the eudicots. The order is very diverse, containing plants as different as the willow, violet, poinsett ...

. The genus ''Mascagnia'' comprises about 45 species that occur in diverse habitats from northern Mexico and the Caribbean to northern Argentina and south-eastern Brazil. ''Mascagnia'' in the traditional sense of was a highly

polyphyletic A polyphyletic group is an assemblage of organisms or other evolving elements that is of mixed evolutionary origin. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as homoplasies, which are explained as a result of converg ...

assemblage, a ''form-genus'' based on the lateral-winged

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s. Since the mid-1980s, morphological and molecular studies led to the removal of discordant elements, which were assigned to the

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'' Adelphia'', ''Aenigmatanthera'', '' Alicia'', '' Amorimia'', ''

Calcicola ''Calcicola'' is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. ''Calcicola'' comprises 2 species of shrubs or treelets native to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the Un ...

'', '' Callaeum'', '' Carolus'', ''

Christianella ''Christianella'' is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. ''Christianella'' comprises 5 species of woody vines and shrubby habit occurring in forests, roadside thickets, and sh ...

'', ''

Malpighiodes ''Malpighiodes'' is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. ''Malpighiodes'' comprises 4 species of woody vines native to northern South America. They are found in northern Brazil, ...

'', ''Niedenzuella'', and '' Psychopterys''. In addition,

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analyses showed that ''Triopterys'' is nested within ''Mascagnia''. The

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formerly assigned to ''Triopterys'' were transferred to ''Mascagnia'', which is now a

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. The correct name for the species often called ''Mascagnia macroptera'' in the horticulture trade is ''Callaeum macropterum''; the names are not interchangeable. Most of the plants sold in the US under the names ''Callaeum macropterum'' and ''Mascagnia macroptera'' are actually ''Callaeum septentrionale''. ;Species currently recognized

References

*Anderson, W. R. 2006. Eight segregates from the neotropical genus ''Mascagnia'' (Malpighiaceae). Novon 16: 168–204. *Anderson, W. R., and S. Corso. 2007. ''Psychopterys'', a new genus of Malpighiaceae from Mexico and Central America. Contr. Univ. Michigan Herb. 25: 113–135. *Anderson, W. R., and C. Davis, 2007. Generic adjustments in Neotropical Malpighiaceae. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 25: 137–166. *Anderson, W. R., and C. C. Davis. 2012. Proposal to conserve the name ''Mascagnia'' against ''Triopterys'' (Malpighiaceae). Taxon 61: 1124–1125. *Anderson, W. R., and C. C. Davis. 2013. Combination of ''Mascagni''a and ''Triopterys''. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 108: 191–203. *Davis, C. C., and W. R. Anderson. 2010. A complete phylogeny of Malpighiaceae inferred from nucleotide sequence data and morphology. American Journal of Botany 97: 2031–2048. *Johnson, D. M. Revision of the neotropical genus ''Callaeum'' (Malpighiaceae). Systematic Botany 11: 335–353.

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