{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ferdinandusa elliptica Pohl107.png |image_caption = ''Ferdinandusa elliptica'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Ferdinandusa |authority = Pohl |synonyms = {{Plainlist | style = margin-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em; | **''Ferdinandea'' <small>Pohl</small> *''Aspidanthera'' <small>Benth.</small> *''Gomphosia'' <small>Wedd.</small> }} |synonyms_ref = <ref name=WCSP>{{cite web |url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=84331 |title=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |accessdate=July 10, 2015}}</ref> }}
'''''Ferdinandusa''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to the American tropics.<ref name=WCSP/>
==Taxonomy== The genus was initially named ''Ferdinandea'' by Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (but that name was an illegitimate homonym<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=34601-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditSimplePlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_wholeName%3DFerdinandea%26output_format%3Dnormal |title=The International Plant Names Index |accessdate=10 July 2015}}</ref>) who placed it in the family Bignoniaceae.<ref>{{citation |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9622#page/169/mode/1up |title=Plantarum Brasiliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae (text only) |year=1827 |volume=2 |page=8 |publisher=Antonius Strauss |place=Vienna}} [http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=60756&mobile=0 Plate 106], [http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=60757&mobile=0 plate 107], [http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=60758&mobile=0 plate 108]</ref> This species is a shrub or small tree that occurs at the edge of a swamp in a gallery forest.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia|date=June 2001|title=Reproductive biology of the protandrous Ferdinandusa speciosa Pohl (Rubiaceae) in Southeastern Brazil|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26354473|journal=Brazilian Journal of Botany 24(2)}}</ref>
== Breeding == The beginning of anthesis and the opening of the stigmatic lips occur at dusk. The nectar is secreted during both the male and the female phases, with concentration of sugars greater in the male phase. The flowers are pollinated by two hummingbird species, ''Chlorostilbon aureoventris'' and ''Phaethornis pretrei''.<ref name=":0" />
==Species== Species include:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Ferdinandusa |title=The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species |accessdate=July 9, 2015}}</ref> *''Ferdinandusa boomii'' <small>Steyerm.</small> *''Ferdinandusa chlorantha'' <small>(Wedd.) Standl.</small> *''Ferdinandusa cordata'' <small>Ducke</small> *''Ferdinandusa dissimiliflora'' <small>(Mutis ex Humb.) Standl.</small> *''Ferdinandusa duckei'' <small>Steyerm.</small> *''Ferdinandusa edmundoi'' <small>Sucre</small> *''Ferdinandusa elliptica'' <small>(Pohl) Pohl</small> *''Ferdinandusa goudotiana'' <small>K.Schum.</small> *''Ferdinandusa guainiae'' <small>Spruce ex K.Schum.</small> *''Ferdinandusa hirsuta'' <small>Standl.</small> *''Ferdinandusa lanceolata'' <small>K.Schum.</small> *''Ferdinandusa leucantha'' <small>Standl.</small> *''Ferdinandusa loretensis'' <small>Standl.</small> *''Ferdinandusa neblinensis'' <small>Steyerm.</small> *''Ferdinandusa nitida'' <small>Ducke</small> *''Ferdinandusa panamensis'' <small>Standl. & L.O.Williams</small> *''Ferdinandusa paporiensis'' <small>Suess.</small> *''Ferdinandusa paraensis'' <small>Ducke</small> *''Ferdinandusa rudgeoides'' <small>(Benth.) Wedd.</small> *''Ferdinandusa scandens'' <small>Ducke</small> *''Ferdinandusa schultesii'' <small>Steyerm.</small> *''Ferdinandusa speciosa'' <small>(Pohl) Pohl</small> *''Ferdinandusa sprucei'' <small>K.Schum.</small> *''Ferdinandusa uaupensis'' <small>Spruce ex K.Schum.</small>
==References== {{commons category}} {{Reflist}}
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