Biology:Pectinaria (plant)

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Short description: Genus of plants

Pectinaria
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Ceropegieae
Genus: Pectinaria
Haw. 1819

Pectinaria is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.[1][2] The entire genus is endemic to South Africa .[3]

Species[4]


formerly included[4]
  1. Pectinaria exasperata now Stapeliopsis exasperata

References

  1. Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1819. Supplementum plantarum succulentarum :sistens plantas novas vel nuper introductas, sive omissas, in Synopse plantarum succulentarum : cum observationibus variis anglicanis 14 in Latin
  2. Tropicos genus Pectinaria
  3. Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
  4. 4.0 4.1 The Plant List, genus Pectinaria

Wikidata ☰ Q6067943 entry