Bathysa
Encyclopedia
Bathysa is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the Rubiaceae
family
. It is found from Panama
to southern tropical America.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. It is found from Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
to southern tropical America.
Species
- Bathysa australis (A.St.-Hil.) K.Schum.
- Bathysa bathysoides (Steyerm.) Delprete
- Bathysa bracteosa (Wedd.) Delprete
- Bathysa cuspidata (A.St.-Hil.) Hook.f. ex K.Schum.
- Bathysa gymnocarpa K.Schum.
- Bathysa mendoncae K.Schum.
- Bathysa multiflora L.O.Williams
- Bathysa nicholsonii K.Schum.
- Bathysa obovata K.Schum. ex Standl.
- Bathysa panamensis Dwyer
- Bathysa perijaensis (Steyerm.) Delprete
- Bathysa peruviana K.Krause
- Bathysa pittieri (Standl.) Steyerm.
- Bathysa stipulata (Vell.) C.Presl
- Bathysa sylvestrae Germano-Filho & M.Gomes
- Bathysa veraguensis Dwyer