# Ferdinandusa

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***Ferdinandusa*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Rubiaceae](/source/Rubiaceae), native to the American tropics.[1]

## Taxonomy

The genus was initially named *Ferdinandea* by Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (but that name was an [illegitimate homonym](/source/Homonym_(biology))[2]) who placed it in the family [Bignoniaceae](/source/Bignoniaceae).[3] This species is a [shrub](/source/Shrub) or small tree that occurs at the edge of a [swamp](/source/Swamp) in a gallery forest.[4]

## Breeding

The beginning of [anthesis](/source/Anthesis) and the opening of the stigmatic lips occur at [dusk](/source/Dusk). The [nectar](/source/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](/source/Hummingbird) species, *[Chlorostilbon aureoventris](/source/Chlorostilbon_aureoventris)* and *[Phaethornis pretrei](/source/Phaethornis_pretrei)*.[4]

## Species

Species include:[5]

- *[Ferdinandusa boomii](/source/Ferdinandusa_boomii)* Steyerm.
- *[Ferdinandusa chlorantha](/source/Ferdinandusa_chlorantha)* (Wedd.) Standl.
- *[Ferdinandusa cordata](/source/Ferdinandusa_cordata)* Ducke
- *[Ferdinandusa dissimiliflora](/source/Ferdinandusa_dissimiliflora)* (Mutis ex Humb.) Standl.
- *[Ferdinandusa duckei](/source/Ferdinandusa_duckei)* Steyerm.
- *[Ferdinandusa edmundoi](/source/Ferdinandusa_edmundoi)* Sucre
- *[Ferdinandusa elliptica](/source/Ferdinandusa_elliptica)* (Pohl) Pohl
- *[Ferdinandusa goudotiana](/source/Ferdinandusa_goudotiana)* K.Schum.
- *[Ferdinandusa guainiae](/source/Ferdinandusa_guainiae)* Spruce ex K.Schum.
- *[Ferdinandusa hirsuta](/source/Ferdinandusa_hirsuta)* Standl.
- *[Ferdinandusa lanceolata](/source/Ferdinandusa_lanceolata)* K.Schum.
- *[Ferdinandusa leucantha](/source/Ferdinandusa_leucantha)* Standl.
- *[Ferdinandusa loretensis](/source/Ferdinandusa_loretensis)* Standl.
- *[Ferdinandusa neblinensis](/source/Ferdinandusa_neblinensis)* Steyerm.
- *[Ferdinandusa nitida](/source/Ferdinandusa_nitida)* Ducke
- *[Ferdinandusa panamensis](/source/Ferdinandusa_panamensis)* Standl. & L.O.Williams
- *[Ferdinandusa paporiensis](/source/Ferdinandusa_paporiensis)* Suess.
- *[Ferdinandusa paraensis](/source/Ferdinandusa_paraensis)* Ducke
- *[Ferdinandusa rudgeoides](/source/Ferdinandusa_rudgeoides)* (Benth.) Wedd.
- *[Ferdinandusa scandens](/source/Ferdinandusa_scandens)* Ducke
- *[Ferdinandusa schultesii](/source/Ferdinandusa_schultesii)* Steyerm.
- *[Ferdinandusa speciosa](/source/Ferdinandusa_speciosa)* (Pohl) Pohl
- *[Ferdinandusa sprucei](/source/Ferdinandusa_sprucei)* K.Schum.
- *[Ferdinandusa uaupensis](/source/Ferdinandusa_uaupensis)* Spruce ex K.Schum.

## References

1. ["World Checklist of Selected Plant Families"](http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=84331). Retrieved July 10, 2015.

1. ["The International Plant Names Index"](http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=34601-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditSimplePlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_wholeName%3DFerdinandea%26output_format%3Dnormal), retrieved 10 July 2015

1. ["Plantarum Brasiliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae (text only)"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9622#page/169/mode/1up), Vol. 2, Vienna: Antonius Strauss, 1827, p. 8 [Plate 106](http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=60756&mobile=0), [plate 107](http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=60757&mobile=0), [plate 108](http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=60758&mobile=0)

1. Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (June 2001). ["Reproductive biology of the protandrous Ferdinandusa speciosa Pohl (Rubiaceae) in Southeastern Brazil"](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26354473). *Brazilian Journal of Botany 24(2)*

1. ["The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species"](http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Ferdinandusa). Retrieved July 9, 2015.

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