''Aegiphila'' is a genus 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 mint family,
Lamiaceae, first described in 1763. It was formerly classified in the
Verbenaceae
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The ...
. It is native to
Mexico
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,
Central America
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,
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, the
West Indies
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, and
Florida
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.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
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Lectotypifications, neotypifications, and epitypification in the genus ''Aegiphila'' Jacq.
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Species:[
#'' Aegiphila aculeifera'' Moldenke - Colombia
#'' Aegiphila alba'' Moldenke - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
#'' Aegiphila anomala'' Pittier - Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica
#'' Aegiphila aracaensis'' Aymard & Cuello - Serra do Aracá in the State of Amazonas in Brazil
#'' Aegiphila arcta'' Moldenke - Yaracuy State in Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila australis'' Moldenke - Santa Catarina in Brazil
#'' Aegiphila bogotensis'' (Spreng.) Moldenke - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila boliviana'' Moldenke - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
# '' Aegiphila brachiata'' Vell. - Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay
# '' Aegiphila bracteolosa'' Moldenke - Guyana, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, northwestern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila brenesii'' Hammel - Costa Rica
#'' Aegiphila breviflora'' (Rusby) Moldenke - Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila buchtienii'' Moldenke - Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila candelabrum'' Briq - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
#'' Aegiphila capitata'' Moldenke - São Paulo
#'' Aegiphila casseliiformis'' Schauer - southeastern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila catatumbensis'' Moldenke - Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila caucensis'' Moldenke - Colombia, Peru
# '' Aegiphila caymanensis'' Moldenke - Grand Cayman Island
#'' Aegiphila cephalophora'' Standl. - Panama, Costa Rica
#'' Aegiphila chrysantha'' Hayek - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
#'' Aegiphila conturbata'' Moldenke - eastern Brazil
# '' Aegiphila cordata'' Poepp. - Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, northwestern Brazil
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) Moldenke - Peru, Ecuador
#†'' Aegiphila coriacea'' Moldenke - Brazil; probably extinct
#'' Aegiphila costaricensis'' Moldenke - southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila cuatrecasasii'' Moldenke - Ecuador, Colombia
#'' Aegiphila cuneata'' Moldenke - Peru, Ecuador, Acre State in Brazil
#'' Aegiphila dentata'' Moldenke - southeastern Brazil
# '' Aegiphila deppeana'' Steud. - central + southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana
#'' Aegiphila duckei'' Moldenke - State of Amazonas in Brazil
#'' Aegiphila elata'' Sw. - Florida, southern Mexico, Central America, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Lesser Antilles, Guianas, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil
#'' Aegiphila elegans'' Moldenke - Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, northwestern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila elongata'' Moldenke - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila exiguiflora'' Moldenke - Pará State in Brazil
# '' Aegiphila falcata'' Donn.Sm - Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama
#'' Aegiphila farinosa'' Moldenke - Colombia
# '' Aegiphila fasciculata'' J.D. Smith - Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
#'' Aegiphila fendleri'' Moldenke - Venezuela, Amapá State in Brazil
# '' Aegiphila ferruginea'' Hayek Hayek, Hayki or AlHayki is a surname:
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& Spruce - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila filipes'' Mart. & Schauer - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, northwestern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila floribunda'' Moritz & Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila fluminensis'' Vell. - southeastern Brazil
# '' Aegiphila foetida'' Sw. - Jamaica
#'' Aegiphila froesii'' Moldenke - State of Amazonas in Brazil
#'' Aegiphila glabrata'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila glomerata'' Benth.
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- Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila gloriosa'' Moldenke - Pará, Bahia
#'' Aegiphila goeldiana'' Huber & Moldenke - Pará
#'' Aegiphila goudotiana'' Moldenke - Cundinamarca in Colombia
#'' Aegiphila grandis'' Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila graveolens'' Mart. & Schauer - eastern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila hastingsiana'' Moldenke - Guatemala
#'' Aegiphila haughtii'' Moldenke - Peru, Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila herzogii'' Moldenke - Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila hirsuta'' Moldenke - Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila hirsutissima'' Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela, Panama
#'' Aegiphila hoehnei'' Moldenke - Venezuela, Panama, Peru, Ecuador, northwestern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila hystricina'' Aymard & Cuello - Venezuela, Amapá State in Brazil
# '' Aegiphila insignis'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila integrifolia'' (Jacq.) B.D.Jacks. - widespread from Panama and Trinidad to Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila intermedia'' Moldenke- Venezuela, Brazil
#'' Aegiphila killipii'' Moldenke - Colombia
# '' Aegiphila laeta'' Kunth - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama
# '' Aegiphila laevis'' (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel. - Colombia, Guianas, Venezuela, Brazil
#'' Aegiphila lanata'' Moldenke - Brazil
#'' Aegiphila laxiflora'' Benth - Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana
#'' Aegiphila lehmannii'' Moldenke - Colombia, Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila lewisiana'' Moldenke - Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila lhotskiana'' Cham. - Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
#'' Aegiphila longifolia'' Turcz - northwestern Brazil, Colombia, Guyana
#'' Aegiphila longipetiolata'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila lopez-palacii'' Moldenke - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila loretensis'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila luschnathii'' Schauer - Brazil
#'' Aegiphila macrantha'' Ducke - Brazil, Guianas, Venezuela, Trinidad
# '' Aegiphila martinicensis'' Jacq. - Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia
#'' Aegiphila mattogrossensis'' Moldenke - Mato Grosso
# '' Aegiphila mediterranea'' Vell. - Brazil, Paraguay, Misiones Province in Argentina
#'' Aegiphila medullosa'' Moldenke - Rio de Janeiro
# '' Aegiphila membranacea'' Turcz. - Guianas, northwestern Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
#'' Aegiphila microcalycina'' Moldenke - Roraima
#'' Aegiphila minasensis'' Moldenke - Minas Gerais
#'' Aegiphila moldenkeana'' López-Pal. - Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila mollis'' Kunth - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northwestern Brazil, Venezuela, Panama,
# '' Aegiphila monstrosa'' Moldenke - southern Mexico, Central America
# '' Aegiphila montana''Moldenke - Colombia
# '' Aegiphila monticola'' Moldenke - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila mortonii'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila multiflora'' Ruiz & Pav. - Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila narinensis'' Rueda - Colombia, Ecuador
# '' Aegiphila nervosa'' Urb. - Jamaica, Hispaniola
#'' Aegiphila novofrifurgensis'' Moldenke - southeastern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila novogranatensis'' Moldenke - Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila obducta'' Vell. - southern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila obovata'' Andrews - Trinidad & Tobago
# '' Aegiphila obtusa'' Urb. - Jamaica
#'' Aegiphila odontophylla'' Donn.Sm. - Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila ovata'' Moldenke - Peru, Bolivia
# '' Aegiphila panamensis'' Moldenke - southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, northwestern Brazil, Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila paraguariensis'' Briq. - Brazil, Paraguay
#'' Aegiphila paranensis'' Moldenke - Paraguay
#'' Aegiphila parviflora'' Moldenke - Venezuela, Brazil
#'' Aegiphila pavoniana'' Moldenke - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila pennellii'' Moldenke - Tolima region of Colombia
#'' Aegiphila pernambucensis'' Moldenke - eastern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila perplexa'' Moldenke - Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila peruviana'' Turcz. - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
# '' Aegiphila plicata'' Urb. - Jamaica
#'' Aegiphila pulcherrima'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila purpurascens'' Moldenke - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila quararibeana'' Rueda - Costa Rica
# '' Aegiphila quinduensis'' (Kunth) Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila racemosa'' Vell. - Brazil, Guianas, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
# '' Aegiphila riedeliana'' Schauer - Brazil
# '' Aegiphila rimbachii'' Moldenke - Ecuador
#'' Aegiphila roraimensis'' Moldenke - Guyana, Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila saltensis'' Legname - Salta Province of Argentina
#'' Aegiphila salticola'' Moldenke - Brazil
#'' Aegiphila scandens'' Moldenke - Apure State of Venezuela, northwestern Brazil
# '' Aegiphila schimpffii'' Moldenke - Ecuador
# '' Aegiphila sellowiana'' Cham. - Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Misiones Province of Argentina
#'' Aegiphila setiformis'' Rusby - Bolivia
# '' Aegiphila skutchii'' Moldenke - southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
#'' Aegiphila smithii'' Moldenke - Peru
# '' Aegiphila sordida'' Moldenke - Bolivia, Peru
#'' Aegiphila spicata'' (Rusby) Moldenke - Bolivia, Peru
#'' Aegiphila spruceana'' Moldenke - Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, northwestern Brazil
#'' Aegiphila standleyi'' Moldenke - Costa Rica
#'' Aegiphila steinbachii'' Moldenke - Bolivia
#'' Aegiphila sufflava'' Moldenke - Ecuador, Peru
#'' Aegiphila swartziana'' Urb. - Jamaica
#'' Aegiphila sylvatica'' Moldenke - Colombia
# '' Aegiphila ternifolia'' (Kunth) Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila trifida'' Sw. - Jamaica
#'' Aegiphila truncata'' Moldenke - Colombia
#'' Aegiphila uasadiana'' J.R.Grande - Venezuela
#'' Aegiphila ulei'' (Hayek) B.Walln. - Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil
#'' Aegiphila umbraculiformis'' Moldenke - Peru
#'' Aegiphila uniflora'' Urb. - Jamaica
#'' Aegiphila valerioi'' Standl. - southern Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama
#'' Aegiphila vallensis'' Moldenke - Colombia
#'' Aegiphila velutinosa'' Moldenke - Peru
#'' Aegiphila venezuelensis'' Moldenke - Venezuela
# '' Aegiphila verticillata'' Vell. - Brazil, Paraguay
#''Aegiphila villosa
''Aegiphila villosa'' is a species of shrub in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Guianas and Brazil. It grows primarily in wet tropical biomes.
References
Aegiphila, villosa
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'' (Aubl.) J.F.Gmel - Brazil, Guianas
# '' Aegiphila vitelliniflora'' Klotzsch - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay
#'' Aegiphila volubilis'' Moldenke - Ecuador, Peru
#'' Aegiphila wigandioides'' Lundell - Chiapas
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5221054
Flora of Florida
Flora of Mexico
Flora of the Caribbean
Flora of Central America
Flora of South America
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Lamiaceae genera
Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin