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Machaonia

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Machaonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 32 species.^[1] All are indigenous to the neotropics.^[2] None has a unique common name. Some species have been called "alfilerillo", a Spanish name for the common and well-known genus Erodium. The type species for Machaonia is Machaonia acuminata.^[3]

Machaonia was named by Humboldt and Bonpland in 1806 in their book, Plantae Aequinoctiales.^[4]^[5] This genus name is for Machaon, the son of Asclepias in Greek Mythology.

Phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences have shown that Machaonia is paraphyletic over Neoblakea and Allenanthus.^[6]

The following species list may be incomplete or contain synonyms.

^ Machaonia At: World Checklist of Rubiaceae At: Kew Gardens Website. (see External links below).
^ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
^ Machaonia In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
^ Machaonia in International Plant Names Index. (see External links below).
^ Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. 1806. Plantes équinoxiales recueillies au Mexique :dans l'île de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du rio-Negro de Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones. 1:101. F. Schoell: Paris, France. (see External links below).
^ Ulrika Manns and Birgitta Bremer. 2010. "Towards a better understanding of intertribal relationships and stable tribal delimitations within Cinchonoideae s.s. (Rubiaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(1):21-39. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.002

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Machaonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 32 species. All are indigenous to the neotropics. None has a unique common name. Some species have been called "alfilerillo", a Spanish name for the common and well-known genus Erodium. The type species for Machaonia is Machaonia acuminata.

Machaonia was named by Humboldt and Bonpland in 1806 in their book, Plantae Aequinoctiales. This genus name is for Machaon, the son of Asclepias in Greek Mythology.

Phylogenetic studies of DNA sequences have shown that Machaonia is paraphyletic over Neoblakea and Allenanthus.