Keetia

Keetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Vanguerieae
Genus: Keetia
E.Phillips
Type species
Keetia gueinzii
(Sond.) Bridson

Keetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of climbers or scrambling shrubs, rarely small trees.

Distribution

The genus has a wide distribution area and occurs in tropical and southern Africa.

Taxonomy

It was originally described by Edwin Percy Phillips in 1926[1] and is named after J.D.M Keet, a South African forester and plant collector.[2] The type species was Keetia transvaalensis, which received its name from the region it was first collected, but is now included in Keetia gueinzii.[3]

Species

  • Keetia acuminata Bridson
  • Keetia angustifolia Bridson
  • Keetia bakossiorum Cheek
  • Keetia bridsoniae Jongkind
  • Keetia carmichaelii Bridson
  • Keetia cornelia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bridson
  • Keetia ferruginea Bridson
  • Keetia foetida Bridson
  • Keetia gracilis Bridson
  • Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson
  • Keetia hispida (Benth.)Bridson
  • Keetia inaequilatera (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
  • Keetia koritschoneri Bridson
  • Keetia leucantha (K.Krause) Bridson
  • Keetia lukei Bridson
  • Keetia lulandensis Bridson
  • Keetia mannii (Hiern) Bridson
  • Keetia molundensis (K.Krause) Bridson
  • Keetia multiflora (Schumach. & Thonn.) Bridson
  • Keetia obovata Jongkind
  • Keetia ornata Bridson
  • Keetia procteri Bridson
  • Keetia purpurascens (Bullock) Bridson
  • Keetia purseglovei Bridson
  • Keetia ripae (De Wild.) Bridson
  • Keetia rubens (Hiern) Bridson
  • Keetia rufivillosa (Robyns ex Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
  • Keetia rwandensis Bridson
  • Keetia tenuiflora (Welw. ex Hiern) Bridson
  • Keetia venosa (Oliv.) Bridson
  • Keetia venosissima (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
  • Keetia zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Bridson

References

  1. ↑ Phillips EP. 1926 "The genera of South African flowering plants, Edition 2." Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 10.
  2. ↑ Gunn M, Codd LE (1981). Botanical exploration of southern Africa. Cape Town: Balkema.
  3. ↑ Tilney PM, Van Wyk AE (2009). "Taxonomy of the genus Keetia (Rubiaceae-subfam. Ixoroideae-tribe Vanguerieae) in southern Africa, with notes on bacterial symbiosis as well as the structure of colleters and the stylar head complex". Bothalia. 39: 165–175.
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