Biology:Pachycarpus

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pachycarpus
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Pachycarpus schinzianus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Pachycarpus
E.Mey.

Pachycarpus is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described in 1838.[1][2] It is native to Africa.[3]

Species[4]


formerly included

moved to other genera (Asclepias, Gomphocarpus, Xysmalobium)


References

  1. Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Pachycarpus Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 209-215. in Latin
  2. Tropicos, genus Pachycarpus
  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. The Plant List
  5. Brown, Robert. 1810. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1: 39.
  6. Tropicos Xysmalobium grandiflorum
  7. Tropicos, Asclepias grandiflora distribution

Wikidata ☰ Q6056713 entry