Biology:Cleghornia

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Short description: Genus of plants

Cleghornia
C. acuminata[3]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Apocynoideae
Tribe: Apocyneae
Genus: Cleghornia
Wight[1]
Synonyms[4]
  • Giadotrum Pichon

Cleghornia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It includes two species, which are native to Borneo, China , Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.[5]

The genus name was chosen in dedication to Dr. Hugh Cleghorn,[6] the "father of scientific forestry in India".[7]

Species[5]
  • Cleghornia acuminata Wight - Sri Lanka
  • Cleghornia malaccensis (Hook.f.) King & Gamble - Guizhou, Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, W Malaysia
formerly included
  • C. borneensis King & Gamble = Anodendron borneense (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton
  • C. chinensis (Merr.) P.T.Li = Sindechites chinensis (Merr.) Markgr. & Tsiang
  • C. cymosa Wight = Cleghornia acuminata Wight
  • C. dongnaiensis Pierre ex Pit. = Cleghornia malaccensis (Hook.f.) King & Gamble
  • C. gracilis King & Gamble = Anodendron gracile (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton
  • C. henryi (Oliv.) P.T.Li = Sindechites henryi Oliv.

References

  1. ↑  Two species were published at the same time in 1848 under the then newly coined name of Cleghornia in Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 4(2): 5. 1848.; C. acuminata and C. cymosa "Name - Cleghornia Wight". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://tropicos.org/Name/40009937. Retrieved May 16, 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Name - Cleghornia Wight subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Cleghornia. Retrieved July 13, 2011. 
  3. ↑ illustration by Govindoo, published in Wight, R., Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, vol. 4(2): t. 1310 (1846)
  4. ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=41669. Retrieved May 21, 2014. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ↑ (conducted by) P.J.Selby, Esq., F.L.S.; George Johnston, M.D.; Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.; J.H.Balfour, M.D., Prof. Bot. Edinburgh; Richard Taylor, F.L.S., F.G.S. (1850). "Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh" (PDF). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London: R. and J.E.Taylor) VI (2nd Series): 142. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16086567. Retrieved July 13, 2011. "...Cleghornia, a new genus of Apocynaceæ, named by Dr. Wight, in honour of Dr. Hugh Cleghorn". 
  7. ↑ Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1899). "The Hill Forests of Western India". Journal of the Society of Arts (Covent Garden, London: George Bell and Sons) 47: 735. https://books.google.com/books?id=EVVDAAAAYAAJ&dq=The+father+of+scientific+forestry+in+India&pg=PA734. Retrieved July 13, 2011. 

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