• Source: Vismia

Vismia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Hypericaceae. Members of the genus are small trees and shrubs found in tropical and subtropical areas of Central America and South America.
Including the countries of Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago and Venezuela.
Like many members of the Hypericaceae, these plants contain xanthonoids.
The genus name of Vismia is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal.
It was first described and published in Fl. Lusit. Bras. Spec. on page 51 in 1788.




Known species


Plants of the World Online accepts 48 species;




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Hypericaceae
• Vismia
• Vismia pauciflora
• Vismia torrei
• Vismia baccifera
• Vismia mandurr
• Vismia jefensis
• Hypericum bacciferum
• Dinoponera gigantea
• Hypericaceae
• Guiana Amazonian Park