Euploca humilis
Euploca humilis (L.) Feuillet
Euploca humilis, native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, is a flowering plant in the Heliotropiaceae family. Originally described by Linnaeus in 1753, it was reclassified from Tournefortia to Euploca in 2016 based on molecular and morphological evidence.
Description
Euploca humilis is a suffrutescent herb growing up to 30 cm tall, with stiff, erect or decumbent stems covered in loosely appressed trichomes. Its leaves are lanceolate to linear, with revolute margins and a tomentose underside. The inflorescences are terminal or axillary, forming stiff scorpioid cymes with white corollas and yellow throats. Flowers are subsessile with ovate lobes and hairy stamens. The fruit is a depressed, globose, four-lobed structure, 1.5–1.8 mm in diameter, with strigose or hirsute surfaces. Nutlets are 1–1.5 mm long. The plant is distributed across Brazil, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Distribution
BR · Aruba · Bahamas · Bolivia · Brazil Northeast · Brazil North · Brazil Southeast · Brazil West-Central · Colombia · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Guatemala · Guyana · Haiti · Honduras · Leeward Is. · Mexico Central · Mexico Gulf · Mexico Northeast · Mexico Northwest · Mexico Southeast · Mexico Southwest · Netherlands Antilles · Nicaragua · Puerto Rico · Trinidad-Tobago · Venezuelan Antilles · Venezuela
Synonyms
Messerschmidia incanaPioctonon ternatumTournefortia monostachyaTournefortia meyeriTournefortia humilisTournefortia sessilifoliaSchleidenia hispidaSchleidenia fumanaHeliotropium fruticosum var. angustilobumHeliotropium fruticosum var. confertumHeliotropium fruticosum var. hispidumHeliotropium fruticosum var. ternatumHeliotropium fumanaHeliotropium greenmaniiHeliotropium hirtumHeliotropium hispidumHeliotropium mexicanumHeliotropium oaxacanumHeliotropium ottonianumHeliotropium ottonisHeliotropium strictumHeliotropium ternatumHeliotropium ternatum var. fumanaEuploca ternataHeliotropium mexicanumHeliotropium ottoni