Spigelia

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Genus of plants

title: "Spigelia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["loganiaceae", "gentianales-genera"] description: "Genus of plants" topic_path: "general/loganiaceae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigelia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of plants ::

| image = Spigelia marilandica redclay.jpg | image_caption = Spigelia marilandica | taxon = Spigelia | authority = L. | type_species = Spigelia anthelmia | type_species_authority = L. | synonyms =

  • Anthelmenthia P.Browne
  • Arapabaca Adans.
  • Canala Pohl
  • Coelostylis Torr. & A.Gray
  • Heinzelmannia Neck.
  • Liesneria Fern.Casas
  • Montira Aubl.
  • Pseudospigelia W.Klett

Spigelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Loganiaceae. It contains around 60 species, distributed over the warmer parts of the Americas, from the latitude of Buenos Aires to the Southern United States. It was named after Adriaan van den Spiegel (Adrianus Spigelius) by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 Species Plantarum; the type species is Spigelia anthelmia. Pinkroot is a common name for plants in this genus.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Spigelia:

References

References

  1. Alex V. Popovkin. (2011). "''Spigelia genuflexa'' (Loganiaceae), a new geocarpic species from the Atlantic forest of northeastern Bahia, Brazil". [[PhytoKeys]].
  2. Nathaniel Lord Britton. (1896). "An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions". Charles Scribner's Sons.
  3. {{PLANTS
  4. "Spigelia L. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science".

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