# Petrea

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{confused|Petrea, Ohio}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Sandpaper Vine (Petrea volubilis).jpg
|image_caption = ''[Petrea volubilis](/source/Petrea_volubilis)''
|subdivision_ranks=|subdivision=|taxon = Petrea
|authority = [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)
|synonyms = ''Xolocotzia'' {{small|Miranda}}
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Petrea'' L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:330589-2 |website=[Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=20 March 2026}}</ref>
}}

'''''Petrea''''' is a genus of evergreen flowering [vine](/source/vine)s native to tropical [Americas](/source/Americas),<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Rueda|first=Ricardo M.|date=1994|title=Systematics and Evolution of the Genus Petrea (Verbenaceae)|journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden|volume=81|issue=4|pages=610–652|doi=10.2307/2399914|jstor=2399914|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/30319 }}</ref> ranging from Florida and northeastern Mexico to Bolivia, Paraguay, and southern Brazil.<ref name = powo/>

The genus was named in honour of [Robert James Petre](/source/Robert_James_Petre%2C_8th_Baron_Petre), an English [patron](/source/Patronage) of botany.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=287450&isprofile=0&|title=Petrea volubilis - Plant Finder|website=www.missouribotanicalgarden.org|access-date=2019-02-12}}</ref>

==Species==
14 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/>
*''[Petrea aspera](/source/Petrea_aspera)'' {{small|Turcz.}}
*''[Petrea asperifolia](/source/Petrea_asperifolia)'' {{small|(Miranda) Hammel}}
*''[Petrea blanchetiana](/source/Petrea_blanchetiana)'' {{small|[Schauer](/source/Johannes_Conrad_Schauer)}}
*''[Petrea bracteata](/source/Petrea_bracteata)'' {{small|[Steud.](/source/Ernst_Gottlieb_von_Steudel)}}
*''[Petrea brevicalyx](/source/Petrea_brevicalyx)'' {{small|Ducke}}
*''[Petrea campinae](/source/Petrea_campinae)'' {{small|Rueda}}
*''[Petrea guianensis](/source/Petrea_guianensis)'' {{small|Cham.}}
*''[Petrea insignis](/source/Petrea_insignis)'' {{small|[Schauer](/source/Johannes_Conrad_Schauer)}}
*''[Petrea macrostachya](/source/Petrea_macrostachya)'' {{small|[Benth.](/source/George_Bentham)}}
*''[Petrea maynensis](/source/Petrea_maynensis)'' {{small|Huber}}
*''[Petrea pubescens](/source/Petrea_pubescens)'' {{small|[Turcz.](/source/Porphir_Kiril_Nicolai_Stepanowitsch_Turczaninow)}}
*''[Petrea rugosa](/source/Petrea_rugosa)'' {{small|[Kunth](/source/Carl_Sigismund_Kunth)}}
*''[Petrea sulphurea](/source/Petrea_sulphurea)'' {{small|Jans.-Jac.}}
*''[Petrea volubilis](/source/Petrea_volubilis)'' {{small|[L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)}}

==References==
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Category:Verbenaceae
Category:Verbenaceae genera
Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm
Category:Plants described in 1753
Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus 

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