Oncinema

Oncinema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Oncinema
Arn.
Binomial name
Oncinema lineare
(L.f.) Bullock
Synonyms[1][2]

Oncinema is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1834.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Oncinema lineare , native to South Africa.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 The Plant List, genus Oncinema
  2. 1 2 Tropicos, genus Oncinema
  3. Arnott, George Arnott Walker. 1834. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 17: 261 description in Latin, commentary in English.
  4. 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).
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