Pentarrhinum

Pentarrhinum
Pentarrhinum insipidum
Groenkloof Nature Reserve
in South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
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, Tylophora)

  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 Tylophora iringensis (Markgr.) Goyder
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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