# Citharexylum

Citharexylum is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It contains shrub and tree species commonly known as fiddlewoods or zitherwoods. They are native to the Americas, ranging from southern Florida and Texas in the United States to Argentina. The highest diversity occurs in Mexico and the Andes. The generic name is derived from the Greek words κιθάρα (kithara), meaning "lyre", and ξύλον (xylon), meaning "wood," referring to the use of the wood in the sounding boards of string instruments. Several species, especially C. caudatum and C. spinosum, are cultivated as ornamentals.

## Species

78 species are accepted.
* Citharexylum affine D.Don - from northern Mexico to Nicaragua
* Citharexylum alainii Moldenke - Dominican Republic
* Citharexylum altamiranum Greenm. - northeastern Mexico
* Citharexylum amabile (Bocq.) Christenh. & Byng – west-central Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina
* Citharexylum andinum Moldenke - Bolivia, Jujuy Province of Argentina
* Citharexylum berlandieri B.L. Rob. - from Texas to Oaxaca - Berlandier's fiddlewood, Tamaulipan fiddlewood
* Citharexylum bourgeauanum Greenm. - Veracruz, Oaxaca
* Citharexylum brachyanthum (A.Gray ex Hemsl.) A.Gray - Texas, Coahuila, Nuevo León - Boxthorn fiddlewood, Mexican fiddlewood
* Citharexylum broadwayi O.E.Schulz - Trinidad and northeastern Venezuela
* Citharexylum calvum Moldenke - Quintana Roo
* Citharexylum caudatum L. - southern Mexico, West Indies, Central America, Colombia, Peru - Juniper berry
* Citharexylum cooperi Standl. - Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala
* Citharexylum costaricense Moldenke - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras
* Citharexylum crassifolium Greenm - Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
* Citharexylum danirae León de la Luz & F.Chiang - Revillagigedo Islands of Baja California
* Citharexylum decorum Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela
* Citharexylum dentatum D.Don - Peru
* Citharexylum discolor Turcz. - Cuba, Hispaniola
* Citharexylum donnell-smithii Greenm. - Oaxaca, Chiapas, Central America
* Citharexylum ekmanii Moldenke - Cuba
* Citharexylum ellipticum Moc. & Sessé ex D.Don - Veracruz, Campeche, Tabasco; naturalized in Cuba + Cayman Islands
* Citharexylum endlichii Moldenke - northeastern Mexico
* Citharexylum flabellifolium S.Watson - Sonora, Baja California
* Citharexylum flexuosum (Ruiz & Pav.) D.Don - Bolivia, Peru
* Citharexylum fulgidum Moldenke - Veracruz, northeastern Mexico
* Citharexylum glabrum (S.Watson) Greenm - Oaxaca
* Citharexylum guatemalense (Moldenke) D.N.Gibson - Guatemala, Nicaragua
* Citharexylum herrerae Mansf. - Peru
* Citharexylum hexangulare Greenm. - from northern Mexico to Costa Rica
* Citharexylum hidalgense Moldenke - Mexico
* Citharexylum hintonii Moldenke - México State
* Citharexylum hirtellum Standl. - from Veracruz to Panama
* Citharexylum ilicifolium Kunth - Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador
* Citharexylum × jamaicense Moldenke - Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico (C. caudatum × C. spinosum)
* Citharexylum joergensenii (Lillo) Moldenke - Argentina, Bolivia
* Citharexylum karstenii Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela
* Citharexylum kerberi Greenm. - Veracruz
* Citharexylum kunthianum Moldenke - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
* Citharexylum laurifolium Hayek - Bolivia, Peru
* Citharexylum × leonis Moldenke - Cuba (C. caudatum × C. tristachyum)
* Citharexylum ligustrifolium (Thur. ex Decne.) Van Houtte - Mexico
* Citharexylum lucidum Cham. & Schltdl. - Mexico
* Citharexylum lycioides D.Don - Mexico
* Citharexylum macradenium Greenm. - Panama, Costa Rica
* Citharexylum macrochlamys Pittier - Panama, Colombia
* Citharexylum matheanum Borhidi & Kereszty - Cuba
* Citharexylum matudae Moldenke - Chiapas
* Citharexylum mexicanum Moldenke - Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca
* Citharexylum microphyllum (DC.) O.E.Schulz - Hisipaniola
* Citharexylum mocinoi D.Don - Mexico, Central America
* Citharexylum montanum Moldenke - Colombia, Ecuador
* Citharexylum montevidense (Spreng.) Moldenke - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay
* Citharexylum myrianthum Cham. - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay
* Citharexylum obtusifolium Kuhlm - Espírito Santo (unplaced)
* Citharexylum oleinum (Benth. ex Lindl.) Moldenke - Mexico
* Citharexylum ovatifolium Greenm. - Mexico
* Citharexylum peruvianum N.O'Leary & Frost - northwestern Peru
* Citharexylum poeppigii Walp. - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil
* Citharexylum quitense Spreng. - Ecuador
* Citharexylum racemosum Sessé & Moc. - Mexico
* Citharexylum reticulatum Kunth - Ecuador, Peru
* Citharexylum rosei Greenm. - Mexico
* Citharexylum roxanae Moldenke - Baja California
* Citharexylum scabrum Moc. & Sessé ex D.Don - northern Mexico
* Citharexylum schottii Greenm. - southern Mexico, Central America
* Citharexylum schulzii Urb. & Ekman - Hispaniola
* Citharexylum sessaei D.Don - Mexico
* Citharexylum shrevei Moldenke - Sonora
* Citharexylum solanaceum Cham. - southern Brazil
* Citharexylum spinosum L. – Spiny fiddlewood - West Indies, Panama, Venezuela, the Guianas; naturalized in India, Mozambique, Fiji, Bermuda
* Citharexylum stenophyllum Urb. & Ekman - Haiti
* Citharexylum steyermarkii Moldenke - Veracruz, Chiapas, Guatemala
* Citharexylum subflavescens S.F.Blake - Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
* Citharexylum subthyrsoideum Pittier - Colombia, Venezuela
* Citharexylum svensonii Moldenke - Ecuador
* Citharexylum teclense Standl. - El Salvador
* Citharexylum ternatum Moldenke - Cuba
* Citharexylum tetramerum Brandegee - Valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán in Mexico
* Citharexylum tristachyum Turcz. – Threespike Fiddlewood - Cuba, Jamaica, Leeward Islands
* Citharexylum ulei Moldenke - Colombia, Peru, northwestern Brazil
* Citharexylum venezuelense Moldenke - Venezuela
* Citharexylum weberbaueri Hayek - Peru

## Formerly placed here

* Rehdera trinervis (S.F.Blake) Moldenke (as Citharexylum lemsii Moldenke)
* Rhaphithamnus spinosus (Juss.) Moldenke (as Citharexylum cyanocarpum Hook. & Arn.)
* Rhaphithamnus venustus (Phil.) Rob. (as Citharexylum elegans Phil. ex Miers)