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Lepuropetalon is a genus with one species, Lepuropetalon spathulatum, a tiny winter annual that forms a low tuft with a single small flower. It is native to the southeastern United States, Mexico, Uruguay and central Chile, and it is a wild plant rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant. The sources place it in Celastraceae, with older sources using Parnassiaceae.
Lepuropetalon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae containing only one species, Lepuropetalon spathulatum. It is a winter annual that is most abundant in eastern Texas and western Louisiana. From there, it occurs sporadically southward into Mexico, and eastward through the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plain, and rarely in the Piedmont Plateau, to North Carolina. It has a disjunct distribution. In addition to the area mentioned above, it is also found in Uruguay and central Chile.
Before 2009, Lepuropetalon had been placed with Parnassia in the family Parnassiaceae, now usually treated as a segregate of Celastraceae. In 2009, it was placed in the family Celastraceae by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group's APG III system. When their most recent revision of Angiosperm classification was published in 2016, it retained its position in the family Celastraceae.
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