{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{For|the genus of plants described by P.Browne|Forestiera}} {{other uses}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Mexican bluewing (Myscelia ethusa) ovipositing.jpg | image_caption = ''A. vaseyi'' with ovipositing ''Myscelia ethusa'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Adelia | authority = L. 1759, conserved name, not P.Browne 1756 (Oleaceae) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?168 |title=Genus: ''Adelia'' L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2007-10-12 |access-date=2010-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605084855/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?168 |archive-date=2011-06-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=o>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=2924 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> | synonyms = ''Ricinella'' <small>Müll.Arg.</small> }}
'''''Adelia''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, subfamily Acalyphoideae.<ref name="GRIN"/> It is native to Latin America and the Caribbean, with one species extending northward into the southernmost part of Texas.<ref name=o/><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = De-Nova | first1 = J.A. | last2 = Sosa | first2 = V. | last3 = Steinmann | first3 = V.W. | year = 2007 | title = A synopsis of ''Adelia'' (Euphorbiaceae s.s.) | doi = 10.1600/036364407782250535 | journal = Systematic Botany | volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 583–595 | s2cid = 85790156 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Martínez Gordillo | first1 = M. | last2 = Ramírez | first2 = J. J. | last3 = Durán | first3 = R. C. | last4 = Arriaga | first4 = E. J. | last5 = García | first5 = R. | last6 = Cervantes | first6 = A. | last7 = Hernández | first7 = R. M. | year = 2002 | title = Los géneros de la familia Euphorbiaceae en México | journal = Anales del Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Botánica | volume = 73 | issue = 2| pages = 155–281 }}</ref><ref>Stevens, W. D., C. Ulloa Ulloa, A. Pool & O. M. Montiel. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i–xlii,.</ref><ref>Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archive-date=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro</ref><ref>González Ramírez, J. 2010. Euphorbiaceae. En: Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Vol. 5. B.E. Hammel, M.H. Grayum, C. Herrera & N. Zamora (eds.). Monographs in systematic botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 119: 290–394</ref>
The name is derived from the Greek words <big>α</big> (''a''), meaning "not", and <big>δήλος</big> (''delos''), meaning "visible." It refers to the difficulties Linnaeus experienced interpreting the genus.<ref name="Jestrow">{{cite thesis |chapter-url=http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/315 |title=Phylogenetics, Conservation, and Historical Biogeography of the West Indian Members of the Adelieae (Euphorbiaceae) |first=Brett |last=Jestrow |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=Florida International University |year=2010 |chapter=Introduction |access-date=2011-08-08}}</ref>
==Species== ;Current species include:<ref name=o/> # ''Adelia barbinervis'' <small>Cham. & Schltdl.</small> – hairynerve adelia - Mexico, N Central America # ''Adelia brandegeei'' <small>V.W.Steinm.</small> - Baja California Sur, Sonora # ''Adelia cinerea'' <small>(Wiggins & Robbins) A.Cerv., V.W.Steinm. & Flores-Olvera</small> - Sonora # ''Adelia membranifolia'' <small>(Müll.Arg.) Chodat & Hassl.</small> - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina # ''Adelia oaxacana'' <small>(Müll.Arg.) Hemsl.</small> – Oaxaca Adelia - most of Mexico from San Luis Potosí + Sinaloa to Chiapas + Quintana Roo # ''Adelia obovata'' <small>Wiggins & Robbins</small> - Sonora, Sinaloa # ''Adelia panamensis'' <small>Pax & K.Hoffm.</small> - Panama # ''Adelia ricinella'' <small>L.</small> – Wild Lime - West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia # ''Adelia triloba'' <small>(Müll.Arg.) Hemsl.</small> – threelobe adelia - Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela # ''Adelia vaseyi'' <small>(Coult.) Pax & K.Hoffmann</small> – Vasey's wild lime - Tamaulipas, S Texas (Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron, + Willacy Counties)<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS|id=28199|taxon=''Adelia''|accessdate=2010-04-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://148.226.12.104/bitstream/123456789/3823/2/24834.pdf |first=Jose Arturo |last=De-Nova |author2=Victoria Sosa |author3=Kenneth J. Wurdack |title=Phylogenetic Relationships and the Description of a New Species of ''Enriquebeltrania'' (Euphorbiaceae s.s.): An Enigmatic Genus Endemic to Mexico |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=31 |issue=3 |year=2006 |pages=77–111 |jstor=25064183 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810141901/http://148.226.12.104/bitstream/123456789/3823/2/24834.pdf |archive-date=2011-08-10 |doi=10.1600/036364406778388719}}</ref><ref name="Elsevier">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yjc5ZYWtkNAC |title=Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: With Names in Latin, English, French, Spanish and Other Languages |first=Miroslav M. |last=Grandtner |volume=1 |publisher=Elsevier |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-444-51784-5 |page=28}}</ref><ref>[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Adelia%20vaseyi.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map, ''Adelia vaseyi'']</ref>
;Formerly included species (including in Oleaceae homonym) moved to other genera, including: (''Alchornea, Bernardia, Doryxylon, Erythrococca, Flueggea, Forestiera'' (Oleaceae), ''Garciadelia, Homonoia, Lasiocroton, Macaranga, Mallotus'', and ''Spathiostemon'' ) {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| # ''A. acidoton ''<small>L. 1759 not Blanco 1837</small>'' - Flueggea acidoton'' # ''A. acidoton'' <small>Blanco 1837 not L. 1759</small> - Doryxylon spinosum # ''A. acuminata - Forestiera acuminata'' # ''A. angustifolia - Forestiera angustifolia'' # ''A. anomala - Erythrococca anomala'' # ''A. barbata - Mallotus mollissimus'' # ''A. bernardia'' Blanco 1837 not L. 1759 - ''Mallotus mollissimus'' # ''A. bernardia'' L. 1759 not Blanco 1837- ''Bernardia dichotoma'' # ''A. caperoniifolia - Bernardia caperoniifolia'' # ''A. cassinoides - Forestiera segregata'' # ''A. castanocarpa - Chaetocarpus castanocarpus'' # ''A. celastrinea - Bernardia celastrinea'' # ''A. cordifolia - Macaranga cordifolia'' # ''A. cuneata - Homonoia retusa'' # ''A. dodecandra - Bernardia dodecandra'' # ''A. ferruginea - Garciadelia leprosa'' # ''A. glandulosa - Alchornea rugosa'' # ''A. globularis - Forestiera segregata'' # ''A. gracilis - Flueggea acidoton'' # ''A. hirsutissima - Bernardia hirsutissima'' # ''A. houlletiana - Bernardia axillaris subsp. houlletiana'' # ''A. javanica - Spathiostemon javensis'' # ''A. leprosa - Garciadelia leprosa'' # ''A. ligustrina - Forestiera ligustrina'' # ''A. martii - Bernardia axillaris'' # ''A. microphylla - Lasiocroton microphyllus'' # ''A. monoica - Melanolepis multiglandulosa'' # ''A. neomexicana - Forestiera pubescens var. parvifolia'' # ''A. neriifolia - Homonoia riparia'' # ''A. ovata - Forestiera acuminata'' # ''A. papillaris - Mallotus tiliifolius'' # ''A. parvifolia - Forestiera pubescens'' # ''A. phillyreoides - Forestiera phillyreoides'' # ''A. pinetorum - Forestiera segregata var. pinetorum'' # ''A. porulosa - Forestiera segregata'' # ''A. pubescens - Forestiera pubescens'' # ''A. pulchella - Bernardia pulchella'' # ''A. resinosa - Mallotus resinosus'' # ''A. reticulata - Forestiera reticulata'' # ''A. retusa - Homonoia retusa'' # ''A. rhamnifolia - Forestiera rhamnifolia'' # ''A. rotundifolia - Forestiera rotundifolia'' # ''A. scabrida - Bernardia axillaris subsp. scabrida'' # ''A. segregata - Forestiera segregata'' # ''A. spartioides - Bernardia spartioides'' # ''A. sphaerocarpa - Forestiera pubescens var. parvifolia'' # ''A. tamanduana - Bernardia tamanduana'' # ''A. tenuifolia - Bernardia tenuifolia'' # ''A. virgata'' <small>Poir. 1810 not Brandegee 1894</small> - ''Flueggea tinctoria''}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Wikispecies}} {{Commons category}} *[https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ADELI USDA Plants Profile for ''Adelia'' species]
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Category:Adelieae Category:Euphorbiaceae genera Category:Flora of the Caribbean Category:Flora of Central America Category:Flora of Northern America Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus