Cuviera

Cuviera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
clade: Angiosperms
clade: Eudicots
clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Vanguerieae
Genus: Cuviera
DC.
Type species
Cuviera acutiflora
DC.

Cuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the french naturalist Georges Cuvier.[1]

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Distribution

The genus is found in tropical Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus is divided in two subgenera, C. subg. Cuviera and C. subg. Globulostylis.[2]

Species

  • Cuviera acutiflora DC.
  • Cuviera bolo Aubrèv. & Pellegr.
  • Cuviera calycosa Wernham
  • Cuviera cuvieroides (Wernham) Onana
  • Cuviera heisteriifolia Mildbr.
  • Cuviera latior Wernham
  • Cuviera ledermannii K.Krause
  • Cuviera leniochlamys K.Schum.
  • Cuviera letestui Pellegr.
  • Cuviera longiflora Hiern
  • Cuviera macroura K.Schum.
  • Cuviera migeodii Verdc.
  • Cuviera nigrescens (Elliott ex Oliv.) Wernham
  • Cuviera physinodes K.Schum.
  • Cuviera pierrei N.Hallé
  • Cuviera schliebenii Verdc.
  • Cuviera semseii Verdc.
  • Cuviera subuliflora Benth.
  • Cuviera talbotii (Wernham) Verdc.
  • Cuviera tomentosa Verdc.
  • Cuviera trilocularis Hiern
  • Cuviera truncata Hutch. & Dalziel
  • Cuviera uncinula N.Hallé
  • Cuviera wernhamii Cheek

References

  1. ^ de Candolle AP (1807). "Mémoire sur le Cuviera". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 9: 216–222. 
  2. ^ Verdcourt B (1987). "Notes on African Rubiaceae-Vanguerieae". Kew Bulletin 42: 123–199. 

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