Biology:Cordylostigma

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Short description: Genus of plants

Cordylostigma
Cordylostigma virgatum 1DS-II 4-2479.jpg
Cordylostigma virgatum in South Africa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Spermacoceae
Genus: Cordylostigma
Groeninckx & Dessein
Type species
Kohautia longifolia
Klotzsch

Cordylostigma is a genus in the Rubiaceae. The name was coined in 2010 to contain 9 species formerly belonging to the related genus Kohautia.[1] The nine species are native to tropical and southern Africa from Guinea to Somalia to South Africa , as well as Madagascar , Comoros, and Réunion.[2]

Species

  • Cordylostigma amboense (Schinz) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma cicendioides (K.Schum.) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma cuspidatum (K.Schum.) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma longifolium (Klotzsch) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma microcala (Bremek.) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma obtusilobum (Hiern) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma prolixipes (S.Moore) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma stellarioides (Hiern) Groeninckx & Dessein
  • Cordylostigma virgatum (Willd.) Groeninckx & Dessein

References

  1. "Molecular phylogenetic and morphological study of Kohautia (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae), with the recognition of the new genus Cordylostigma". Taxon 59 (5): 1457–1471. 2010. doi:10.1002/tax.595011. 
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Cordylostigma

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q5788460 entry