Biology:Belonophora

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Short description: Genus of plants

Belonophora
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Coffeeae
Genus: Belonophora
Hook.f.
Type species
Belonophora coffeoides
Synonyms
  • Diplosporopsis Wernham
  • Kerstingia K.Schum.

Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola.[1] It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.[2]

Species

  • Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.
    • Belonophora coffeoides subsp. coffeoides - São Tomé (not seen since 1861, possibly extinct)
    • Belonophora coffeoides subsp. hypoglauca (Welw. ex Hiern) S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Benin, Ghana, Guinée, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
  • Belonophora coriacea Hoyle - Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo
  • Belonophora ongensis S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Cameroon, Gabon
  • Belonophora talbotii (Wernham) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
  • Belonophora wernhamii Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria, Cameroon

References

Wikidata ☰ Q962105 entry