Group: Dicot Rank: genus Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Bayer, 3rd, D, 270

Authors:

Linnaeus, Carl von

Published In: Species Plantarum 1: 105. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
Type Specimens

• LT: Houstonia caerulea L. LT designated by Standley, N. Amer. Fl. 32: 24 (1918)

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Asteranae Takht.
• order:  Gentianales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl
• family:  !!Rubiaceae Juss.

Other names for this basionym:

Hedyotis sect. Houstonia (L.) Torr. & A. Gray

Oldenlandia sect. Houstonia (L.) A. Gray

Projects: Bolivia , IPCN , Mesoamericana , SNR , VPA

Keywords: BCA, FNA

Accepted By:

• Hooker, J. D. 1873. Rubiaceae. 2(1): 7–150. In G. Bentham & J. D. Hooker Gen. Pl.. Reeve & Co., London.
• Taylor, C. M. 2010-2025. Studies in Tropical Rubiaceae.
• Terrell, E. E. 1996. Revision of Houstonia (Rubiaceae-Hedyotidae). Syst. Bot. Monogr. 48: 1–118.
• Ulloa Ulloa, C., P. Acevedo-Rodríguez, S. G. Beck, M. J. Belgrano, R. Bernal, P. E. Berry, L. Brako, M. Celis, G. Davidse, S. R. Gradstein, O. Hokche, B. León, S. León-Yánez, R. E. Magill, D. A. Neill, M. H. Nee, P. H. Raven, H. Stimmel, M. T. Strong, J. L. Villaseñor Ríos, J. L. Zarucchi, F. O. Zuloaga & P. M. Jørgensen. 2017. An integrated assessment of vascular plants species of the Americas. Science 358: 1614–1617 [online suppl. materials: 1-23 + 1-2497], t. 1-4 [f. S1-5].
• Ulloa Ulloa, C., P. Acevedo-Rodríguez, S. G. Beck, M. J. Belgrano, R. Bernal, P. E. Berry, L. Brako, M. Celis, G. Davidse, S. R. Gradstein, O. Hokche, B. León, S. León-Yánez, R. E. Magill, D. A. Neill, M. H. Nee, P. H. Raven, H. Stimmel, M. T. Strong, J. L. Villaseñor Ríos, J. L. Zarucchi, F. O. Zuloaga & P. M. Jørgensen. 2018 (onwards). An integrated Assessment of Vascular Plants Species of the Americas (Online Updates).
• Villaseñor Ríos, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico/Catálogo de las plantas vasculares nativas de México. Revista Mex. Biodivers. 87(3): 559–902.

General:

• Carmo, J.A.M., M. Reginato, J. E. Florentín, M. Nuñez Florentin, R. M. Salas & A. O. Simões. 2021. One more piece to the puzzle: Diadorimia, a new monotypic genus in the Spermacoceae (Rubiaceae), endemic to the campo rupestre of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Taxon 71(2): 396–419.
• Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck. 2014. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. 127(1–2): i–viii, 1–1744. In P. M. Jørgensen, M. H. Nee & S. G. Beck (eds.) Cat. Pl. Vasc. Bolivia, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard.. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Jørgensen, P. M., M. H. Nee, S. G. Beck & A.F. Fuentes. 2015 en adelante. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia (actualizaciones en línea).

• Houstonia acerosa (A. Gray) Benth. & Hook. f. Genera Plantarum 2(1): 60. 1873. (Gen. Pl.)
  
• Houstonia sect. Amphiotis (DC.) Terrell Systematic Botany Monographs 48: 49. 1996. (Syst. Bot. Monogr.)
  
• *Houstonia angustifolia Pursh Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, . . . 1: 106. 1814. (Fl. Amer. Sept.)
  
• Houstonia angustifolia Michx. Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux) 1: 85–86. 1803. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)
  
• Houstonia [unranked] Angustifoliae Small Manual of the Southeastern Flora 1254. 1933. (Man. S.E. Fl.)
  
• Houstonia arenaria Rose Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1(3): 70–71. 1890. (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)
  
• Houstonia asperuloides (Benth.) A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5: 158. 1860. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia australis I.M. Johnst. University of California Publications in Botany 7: 446. 1922. (Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot.)
  
• Houstonia biloba Raf. New flora and botany of North America, or, A supplemental flora, additional to all the botanical works on North America and the United States. Containing 1000 new or revised species. 4: 101. 1838. (New Fl.)
  
• Houstonia bouvardioides (Seem.) Benth. & Hook. f. Genera Plantarum 2(1): 60. 1873. (Apr 1873) (Gen. Pl.)
  
• Houstonia brandegeeana Rose Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1(3): 70. 1890. (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)
  
• Houstonia brevipes Rose Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1(3): 83. 1890. (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)
  
• Houstonia bryoides Willd. Systema Vegetabilium 3: 527. 1818. (Syst. Veg.)
  
• Houstonia butterwickiae Terrell Brittonia 31(1): 164–166, f. 1. 1979. (Brittonia)
  
• Houstonia caerulea L. Species Plantarum 1: 105. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
  
• Houstonia calycosa (A. Gray) C. Mohr Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 6: 739. 1901. (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)
  
• Houstonia canadensis Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. Systema Vegetabilium 3: 527. 1818. (Apr-Jul 1818) (Syst. Veg.)
  
• **Houstonia cervantesii (Kunth) Terrell
• Houstonia subg. Chamisme Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 227. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia chlorantha Bertol. Elench 3: 116. 1820. (Elench)
  
• Houstonia ciliata Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 226. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia ciliolata Torr. A Flora of the Northern and Middle Sections of the United States 1: 173. 1824. (Fl. N. Middle United States)
  
• Houstonia coccinea Andrews Botanist's Repository, for new, and rare plants t. 106. 1800. (Bot. Repos.)
  
• Houstonia correllii (W.H. Lewis) Terrell Phytologia 31(6): 425. 1975. (29 Aug 1975) (Phytologia)
  
• Houstonia croftiae Britton & Rusby Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences 7: 10. 1887. (Trans. New York Acad. Sci.)
  
• Houstonia drymarioides Standl. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 18(6): 162. 1928. (J. Washington Acad. Sci.)
  
• Houstonia subg. Edrisia Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 225. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia sect. Ericotis (Terrell) Terrell Systematic Botany Monographs 48: 73. 1996. (Syst. Bot. Monogr.)
  
• Houstonia subg. Ericotis Terrell Phytologia 71(3): 219–220. 1991. (26 Oct 1991) (Phytologia)
  
• Houstonia fasciculata A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17: 203. 1882. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia faxonorum (Pease & A.H. Moore) Fernald Rhodora 29(345): 187. 1927. (Rhodora)
  
• Houstonia filifolia (Chapm.) Small Flora of the Southeastern United States 1109. 1903. (22 Jul 1903) (Fl. S.E. U.S.)
  
• Houstonia floridana Standl. North American Flora 32(1): 36. 1918. (N. Amer. Fl.)
  
• !Houstonia fruticosa Willd. Systema Vegetabilium 3: 527. 1818. (Apr-Jul 1818) (Syst. Veg.)
  
• *Houstonia fruticosa Raf. ex A. Gray Syn. Fl. Am. 2(1): 26. 1884. (Syn. Fl. Am.)
  
• *Houstonia fruticosa Rose Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1(4): 132. 1891. (30 Jun 1891) (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)
  
• Houstonia galeottii (M. Martens) ined.
• Houstonia geniculata Raf. New flora and botany of North America, or, A supplemental flora, additional to all the botanical works on North America and the United States. Containing 1000 new or revised species. 4: 102. 1838. (New Fl.)
  
• Houstonia gracilenta I.M. Johnst. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 12: 1174. 1924. (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4,)
  
• Houstonia gracilis Brandegee Zoë 5: 238. 1907. (Zoë)
  
• Houstonia grandiflora Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 225. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia greenei (A. Gray) Terrell Phytologia 59(1): 79. 1985. (Phytologia)
  
• Houstonia heterophylla Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 227. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia subg. Houstonia
• **Houstonia humifusa (A. Gray) Hemsl. Biologia Centrali-Americana; . . . Botany 2(7): 30. 1881. (Apr 1881) (Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot.)
  
• !Houstonia humifusa (A. Gray) A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4: 314. 1859. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia kingii Terrell Brittonia 32: 491, f. 2. 1980. (Brittonia)
  
• Houstonia lanceolata (Poir.) Britton Manual of the Flora of the northern States and Canada 861. 1901. (Man. Fl. N. States)
  
• Houstonia latifolia Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. Systema Vegetabilium 3: 527. 1818. (Syst. Veg.)
  
• Houstonia linnaei Michx. Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux) 1: 84–85. 1803. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)
  
• Houstonia longiflora (Cav.) A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4: 314. 1860. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia longifolia Gaertn. De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum. . . . 1: 226–227, pl. 49, f. 8. 1788. (Fruct. Sem. Pl.)
  
• Houstonia longipes S. Watson Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18: 97. 1883. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia macrosepala Nutt. A Flora of North America 2: 40. 1841. (Fl. N. Amer.)
  
• Houstonia macvaughii (Terrell) Govaerts ex Borhidi Acta Botanica Hungarica 54(1–2): 82. 2012. (Acta Bot. Hung.)
  
• Houstonia micrantha (Shinners) Terrell Phytologia 31(6): 425. 1975. (29 Aug 1975) (Phytologia)
  
• Houstonia microphylla Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. Systema Vegetabilium 3: 527. 1818. (Syst. Veg.)
  
• Houstonia minima L.C. Beck American Journal of Science, and Arts 10(2): 262–263. 1826. (Amer. J. Sci. Arts)
  
• Houstonia minor (Michx.) Britton Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 5: 302. 1894. (Mem. Torrey Bot. Club)
  
• Houstonia montana Small Flora of the Southeastern United States 1325, 1338. 1903. (22 Jul 1903) (Fl. S.E. U.S.)
  
• Houstonia mucronata (Benth.) B.L. Rob. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 45(17): 401. 1910. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia mullerae (Fosberg) Terrell Brittonia 31(1): 169. 1979. (Brittonia)
  
• Houstonia sect. Mullerae Terrell Systematic Botany Monographs 48: 45. 1996. (Syst. Bot. Monogr.)
  
• Houstonia nigricans (Lam.) Fernald Rhodora 42(500): 299. 1940. (Rhodora)
  
• Houstonia nuttalliana Fosberg Virginia Journal of Science 2: 111. 1941. (Virginia J. Sci.)
  
• Houstonia oblongifolia Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 226. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia obtusifolia Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 226. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia ochroleuca Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 226. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia ouachitana (E.B. Sm.) Terrell Phytologia 65(2): 119. 1988. (18 Sept 1988) (Phytologia)
  
• Houstonia palmeri A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17: 202–203. 1882. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia parviflora Holz. ex Greenm. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 32(16): 284–285. 1897. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia parvula Brandegee Zoë 5(10C): 221. 1905. (Zoë)
  
• Houstonia patens Elliott A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia 1(2): 191. 1816. (Sketch Bot. S. Carolina)
  
• Houstonia peninsularis Brandegee Zoë 5: 160. 1903. (Zoë)
  
• Houstonia polypremoides A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 21(2): 379. 1886. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia procumbens (J.F. Gmel.) Standl. North American Flora 32(1): 26. 1918. (N. Amer. Fl.)
  
• Houstonia prostrata Brandegee Zoë 5(6–8): 105. 1901. (Zoë)
  
• Houstonia pubescens Raf. Medical Repository, hexade 2 5: 361. 1808. (Med. Repos., hexade 2,)
  
• Houstonia pulvinata Small Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 1(4): 289–290. 1899. (Bull. New York Bot. Gard.)
  
• Houstonia purpurea L. Species Plantarum 1: 105. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.)
  
• !Houstonia pusilla Schöpf Reise durch einige der mittlern und südlichen vereinigten nordamerikanischen Staaten nach Ost-Florida und den Bahama Inseln unternommen in den Jahren 1783 und 1784, etc. 2: 306. 1788. (Reise Nordamer. Staat.)
  
• *Houstonia pusilla J.F. Gmel. Systema Naturae 236. 1791. (Syst. Nat.)
  
• Houstonia pygmaea C.H. Mull. & M. T. Mull. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 63(1): 33–34. 1936. (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club)
  
• Houstonia reticulata Raf. New flora and botany of North America, or, A supplemental flora, additional to all the botanical works on North America and the United States. Containing 1000 new or revised species. 4: 102. 1838. (New Fl.)
  
• Houstonia rigidiuscula (A. Gray) Wooton & Standl. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16(4): 175. 1913. (Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.)
  
• Houstonia rosea (Raf.) Terrell Rhodora 88(855): 395. 1986. (Rhodora)
  
• Houstonia rotundifolia Michx. Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux) 1: 85. 1803. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)
  
• Houstonia rubra Cav. Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum 5: 48, pl. 474, f. 1. 1799. (Icon.)
  
• Houstonia rupestris Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 226. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia rupicola Greenm. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 32(16): 286. 1897. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia salina A. Heller Contributions from the Herbarium of Franklin and Marshall College 1: 96, pl. 9. 1895. (Contr. Herb. Franklin Marshall Coll.)
  
• Houstonia saxicola Eastw. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 2, 6: 291–292. 1896. (Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2,)
  
• **Houstonia serpens Kunth Nova Genera et Species Plantarum (quarto ed.) 3: 390. 1818. (Nov. Gen. Sp. (quarto ed.))
  
• Houstonia serpyllacea (Schltdl.) C.L. Sm. ex Greenm. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 32(16): 284. 1897. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia serpyllifolia Michx. Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux) 1: 85. 1803. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)
  
• *Houstonia serpyllifolia Graham Botanical Magazine 55: t. 2822. 1828. (Bot. Mag.)
  
• Houstonia setiscaphia L.G. Carr Rhodora 46(548): 309. 1944. (Rhodora)
  
• Houstonia sharpii Terrell Brittonia 32: 490, f. 1. 1980. (Brittonia)
  
• Houstonia spellenbergii (G.L. Nesom & Vorobik) Terrell Phytologia 71(3): 234. 1991. (26 Oct 1991) (Phytologia)
  
• Houstonia subg. Stenaria Raf. Annales Générales des Sciences Physiques 5: 226. 1820. (Ann. Gén. Sci. Phys.)
  
• Houstonia stenophylla var. parviflora A. Gray
• Houstonia subviscosa (Wright ex A. Gray) A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4: 314. 1859. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia tenella Pursh Flora Americae Septentrionalis; or, . . . 1: 106. 1814[1813]. (Fl. Amer. Sept.)
  
• Houstonia tenuifolia Nutt. The Genera of North American Plants 1: 95. 1818. (14 Jul 1818) (Gen. N. Amer. Pl.)
  
• Houstonia tenuis Small Flora of the Southeastern United States 1109, 1338. 1903. (22 Jul 1903) (Fl. S.E. U.S.)
  
• Houstonia teretifolia Terrell Brittonia 31(1): 166–168, f. 2. 1979. (Brittonia)
  
• Houstonia terrellii (Lorence) ined.
• Houstonia trichotoma (Schinz) Bär Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich 68: 432. 1923. (Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich)
  
• Houstonia triflora (Kunth) A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4: 314. 1859. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• **Houstonia umbellata Walp. Repertorium Botanices Systematicae. 1: 496. 1842. (Repert. Bot. Syst.)
  
• Houstonia umbratilis B.L. Rob. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 45(17): 401–402. 1910. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia varians Michx. Flora Boreali-Americana (Michaux) 1: 86. 1803. (Fl. Bor.-Amer.)
  
• Houstonia wrightii A. Gray Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17: 202. 1882. (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts)
  
• Houstonia xestosperma (B.L. Rob. & Greenm.) Terrell Brittonia 32: 493. 1980. (Brittonia)
  

• Mesoamerica
  • Mexico : Villaseñor Ríos, J. L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico/Catálogo de las plantas vasculares nativas de México. Revista Mex. Biodivers. 87(3): 559–902.
• North America
  • United States : USDA, NRCS. 2007. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge.