Abatia

{{Short description|Tree genus}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Abatia angeliana.jpg | image_alt = illustration of "Abatia angeliana" | image_caption = illustration of ''Abatia angeliana'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Abatia | authority = Ruiz & Pav. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 10; see text | synonyms = *''Aphaerema'' Miers *''Raleighia'' Gardner *''Graniera'' Mandon & Wedd. ex Benth. & Hook.f. *''Myriotriche'' Turcz. }}

'''''Abatia''''' (syn. ''Raleighia'' Gardner) is a genus of about ten species of Central and South American trees in the family Salicaceae (following the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification). Previously, it was treated in the family Flacourtiaceae, or tribe Abatieae of the family Passifloraceae (Lemke 1988) or Samydaceae by G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker and Hutchinson.

Its native range stretches from Mexico to northern Argentina. It is also found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Peru.<ref name="POWO">{{cite web |title='''Abatia'' Ruiz & Pav. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30426675-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

''Abatia'' has opposite leaves with very small stipules and marginal glands at the base of the blade of the leaf. The valvate (meeting at the edges without overlapping) perianth (sepal and petal together) members are closely joined at the base. They bear many filamentous processes.

The leaves of ''A. rugosa'' and ''A. parviflora'' are source of black dye in Peru.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CXa5rf1PhSQC&dq=Abatia+rugosa+black+dye&pg=PA118 Samuel Frederick Gray, A supplement to the pharmacopœias]</ref>

The genus name of ''Abatia'' is in honour of Pedro Abad y Mestre (1747–1800), a Spanish apothecary and professor of botany in Seville, Spain.<ref>{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}</ref> It was first described and published in Fl. Peruv. Prodr. Vol.78 on table 14 in 1794.<ref name="POWO"/>

== Known species == The following species are accepted by Plants of the World Online:<ref name="POWO" />{{Div col}} *''Abatia americana'' {{small|(Gardner) Eichler}} *''Abatia angeliana'' {{small|M.H.Alford}} *''Abatia canescens'' {{small|Sleumer}} *''Abatia glabra'' {{small|Sleumer}} *''Abatia mexicana'' {{small|Standl.}} *''Abatia microphylla'' {{small|Taub.}} *''Abatia parviflora'' {{small|Ruiz & Pav.}} *''Abatia rugosa'' {{small|Ruiz & Pav.}} *''Abatia spicata'' {{small|(Turcz.) Sleumer}} *''Abatia stellata'' {{small|Lillo}} {{Div col end}}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Other sources== * Bernhard, A. 1999. Flower structure, development, and systematics in Passifloraceae and in Abatia (Flacourtiaceae). ''Int. J. Plant Sci.'' 160: 135–150, illus. * Sleumer, H.O.(1980). Flacourtiaceae.''Flora Neotropica'' 22:55–57. [monographic revision of the genus] * Lemke, D. E.(1988).A synopsis of Flacourtiaceae.''Aliso'' 12:28-43. [Tribe Abatieae transferred from Flacourtiaceae to Passifloraceae]

Category:Salicaceae Category:Salicaceae genera Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm Category:Taxa named by José Antonio Pavón Jiménez Category:Plants described in 1794 Category:Flora of Argentina Category:Flora of Bolivia Category:Flora of Brazil Category:Flora of Colombia Category:Flora of Costa Rica Category:Flora of Ecuador Category:Flora of Mexico Category:Flora of Peru Category:Taxa named by Hipólito Ruiz López