Pectinaria (plant)

Pectinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Pectinaria
Kunth 1819, conserved name, not Bernh. (Apiaceae) 1800 nor (Benth.) Hack. (Poaceae) 1887 nor Cordem. (Orchidaceae) 1899

Pectinaria is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.[1][2] The entire genus is endemic to South Africa.[3]

Species[4]
  1. Pectinaria arcuata N.E.Br. - South Africa
  2. Pectinaria articulata (Aiton) Haw. - South Africa
  3. Pectinaria asperiflora N.E.Br. - South Africa
  4. Pectinaria breviloba R.A.Dyer - Cape Province
  5. Pectinaria longipes (N.E.Br.) Bruyns - Cape Province
  6. Pectinaria maughanii (R.A.Dyer) Bruyns - Cape Province
  7. Pectinaria pillansii N.E.Br. - Cape Province
  8. Pectinaria saxatilis N.E.Br. - South Africa
  9. Pectinaria stayneri M.Bayer - Cape Province
  10. Pectinaria tulipiflora C.A.Lückh. - Cape Province
formerly included[4]

moved to other genera (Angraecum, Stapeliopsis )

  1. Pectinaria exasperata now Stapeliopsis exasperata
  2. Pectinaria thouarsii now Angraecum pectinatum (Orchidaceae)
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References

  1. ↑ Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1819. Supplementum plantarum succulentarum :sistens plantas novas vel nuper introductas, sive omissas, in Synopse plantarum succulentarum : cum observationibus variis anglicanis 14 in Latin
  2. ↑ Tropicos genus Pectinaria
  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 Pectinaria