Biology:Pentarrhinum

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pentarrhinum
Pentarrhinum insipidum, loof en blomme, c, Groenkloof NR.jpg
Pentarrhinum insipidum
Groenkloof Nature Reserve
in South Africa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Pentarrhinum
E.Mey.
Type species
Pentarrhinum insipidum
E.Mey.

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

Species[4]
  1. Pentarrhinum abyssinicum Decne. - E + C + S Africa
  2. Pentarrhinum balense (Liede) Liede - Ethiopia
  3. Pentarrhinum coriaceum Schltr. - KwaZulu-Natal
  4. Pentarrhinum gonoloboides (Schltr.) Liede - Tanzania
  5. Pentarrhinum insipidum E.Mey. - South Africa
  6. Pentarrhinum ledermannii (Schltr.) Goyder & Liede - Burundi
  7. Pentarrhinum somaliense (N.E. Br.) Liede - Somalia
formerly included[4]

moved to other genera (Pentatropis, Vincetoxicum)

  1. Pentarrhinum fasciculatum K.Schum., synonym of Pentatropis nivalis (J.F.Gmel.) D.V.Field & J.R.I.Wood
  2. Pentarrhinum iringense Markgr., synonym of Vincetoxicum iringensis (Markgr.) Goyder

References

  1. Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 199–200. in Latin
  2. Tropicos, genus Pentarrhinum
  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 Pentarrhinum

Wikidata ☰ Q6071479 entry