Psychopterys
Psychopterys is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Psychopterys comprises 8 species of woody vines, occasionally described as shrubs or small trees, which occur in matorral, tropical deciduous forest, and wet forest in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. This genus is very distinctive because of its nearly radial white corollas and eglandular sepals, which are highly unusual characteristics in the Malpighiaceae of the New...
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Psychopterys multiflora
speciesPsychopterys multiflora
Psychopterys ornata
speciesPsychopterys ornata
Psychopterys dipholiphylla
speciesPsychopterys dipholiphylla
Psychopterys polycarpa
speciesPsychopterys polycarpa
Psychopterys rivularis
speciesPsychopterys rivularis
Psychopterys mcvaughii
speciesPsychopterys mcvaughii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 273550.