Cordylostigma

Cordylostigma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Spermacoceae
Genus: Cordylostigma
Groeninckx & Dessein
Type species
Kohautia longifolia
Klotzsch

Cordylostigma is a genus in the Rubiaceae. The name was coined in 2010 to contain 9 species formerly belonging to the related genus Kohautia.[1] The nine species are native to tropical and southern Africa from Guinea to Somalia to South Africa, as well as Madagascar, Comoros, and Réunion.[2]

Species

References

  1. Groeninckx I, Ochoterena H, Smets E, Dessein S (2010). "Molecular phylogenetic and morphological study of Kohautia (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae), with the recognition of the new genus Cordylostigma". Taxon. 59 (5): 1457–1471.
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Cordylostigma


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