Aspicarpa hirtella

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Malpighiales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Cladus: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Malpighiales

Aspicarpa hirtella L.C.Rich.

Homotypic
- Gaudichaudia hirtella (Rich.) S.L.Jessup
Heterotypic
- Acosmus pruriens Desv.
- Aspicarpa hartwegiana A.Juss.
- Gaudichaudia humilis Benth.
- Aspicarpa humilis (Benth.) Nied.
- Aspicarpa longipes A.Gray
- Aspicarpa urens Lag., Gen. Sp. Pl. [Lagasca]: 1 (1816)
  - Type: Grown in the Madrid Botanical Garden from seeds from New Spain, surely Mexico (Lectotype: MA-01-265530^{(GBIF, JSTOR)} [designated by Anderson 1999: 1]; Syntypes: MA {MA-01-265531^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, MA-01-265532^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, MA-01-265533^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, MA-02-265533^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}}).
  - Gaudichaudia urens (Lag.) Chodat

Native distribution areas:

Northern America
- Southwestern U.S.A.
  - Arizona.
- South-Central U.S.A.
  - New Mexico, Texas.
- Mexico
  - Mexico Central (México Distrito Federal, México State, Puebla), Mexico Northeast (Aguascalientes, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas), Mexico Northwest (Sonora), Mexico Southwest (Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca).

Lagasca, M. 1816. Genera et species plantarum, quae aut novae sunt, aut nondum recte cognoscuntur. VII + 35 pp., 2 tt. Ex Typographia Regia, Matriti [Madrid]. Biblioteca Digital Reference page.

Anderson, W.R. 1999. Notes on Neotropical Malpighiaceae―VII. Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium 22: 1–19. BHL. Reference page.
Villaseñor, J.L. 2016. Checklist of the native vascular plants of Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 559–902. DOI: 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.017 Online PDF Reference page. [see p. 789 (as Gaudichaudia hirtella)]

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2025. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Aspicarpa hirtella. Accessed: 2025 December 29.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2025. Aspicarpa hirtella in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2025 December 29. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2025. Aspicarpa hirtella. Published online. Accessed: Dec 29 2025. Reference page.