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496.0000 Family Apocynaceae Juss.; Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 143 (1789), nom. cons.
372 genera, ca. 6500 spp. According to modern authors and PCR Asclepiadaceae is only a subfamily of Apocynaceae.
Species listed in database: 6774; hybrids: 10
= Asclepiadaceae Borkh.; Bot. Wörterb. 1: 31 (1797), nom. cons.
= Carissaceae Bertol; Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 23: 212 (1891)
= Cerberaceae Martinov; Tekhno-Bot. Slovar 119 (1820)
= Cynanchaceae G.Mey.; Chloris Han. 245, 251 (1836)
= Ophioxylaceae Mart.; Consp. Regn. Veg. [Martius] 24 (1835)
= Pacouriaceae Martinov; Tekhno-Bot. Slovar 447 (1820)
= Periplocaceae Schltr.; Nachtr. Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee [Schumann & Lauterbach] 351 (1905), nom. cons.
= Plumeriaceae Horan.; Prim. Lin. Syst. Nat. 70 (1834)
= Stapeliaceae Horan.; Prim. Lin. Syst. Nat. 70 (1834)
= Vincaceae Vest; Anleit. Stud. Bot. 273, 299 (1818)
= Willughbeaceae J.Agardh; Theoria Syst. Pl. 256 (1858)
496.6701 Genus Oxystelma R.Br.; Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 462 (1810)
Distribution: Tropical Old World
Species listed in database: 2
= Extelma Dumort.; Anal. Fam. Pl. 26 (1829)
species :
Oxystelma bornouense R.Br.; Narr. Travels Africa [Denham & Clapperton] 239 (1826)
Distribution: Senegal; Gambia; Guinea-Bissau; Guinea; Mali; Burkina Faso; Ivory Coast; Togo; Benin; Cameroon; Chad; South Sudan; Ethiopia; Somalia; Kenya
22 BEN BKN GAM GNB GUI IVO MLI SEN TOG 23 CMN 24 CHA ETH SOM SSU 25 KEN
Synonyms: hidden
= Oxystelma senegalense Decne.; Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 8: 543 (1844)
species :
Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) R.Br.; Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 40 (1809)
Distribution: Egypt (Great Southwestern Desert, Nile Delta, Nile Valley, SE-Egypt); Chad; Sudan; Ethiopia; Tanzania; Iraq (SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia); Israel (Rift Valley); Sinai peninsula (N-Sinai, S-Sinai); Saudi Arabia (Hejaz, Asir); China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan); Pakistan (Karachi, Sind, Baluchistan, N. W. Frontier Prov., Peshawar, Swat, Pakistani Punjab); Nepal; India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Daman, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Myanmar (Ayeyarwady, Bago, Magway, Mandalay); Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam; peninsular Malaysia; Jawa; Lesser Sunda Isl. (Bali, etc.); Australia (N-Western Australia: Kimberley, Northern Territory)
20 EGY 24 CHA ETH SUD 25 TAN 34 IRQ ISR SIN 35 SAU 36 CHI 40 BAN IND NEP PAK SRL 41 CBD LAO MYA THA VIE 42 JAW LSI MLY 50 AUS
Synonyms: hidden
= Asclepias rosea Roxb.; Hort. Bengal. 20 (1814), nomen, Fl. Ind. [Carey & Wallich ed.] 2: 40 (1824)
= Marsdenia brockmaniana W.Fitzg.; J. Roy. Soc. Western Australia 3: 197 (1918)
= Oxystelma alpini Decne.; Prodr. [A.P. de Candolle] 8: 543 (1844)
= Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) Schult.; Syst. Veg., ed. 15bis [Roemer & Schultes] 6: 89 (1820), isonym
= Oxystelma esculentum (L.f.) Sm.; Cycl. [A.Rees] 25 (not numbered): (1813), isonym
= Oxystelma esculentum var. alpini (Decne.) N.E.Br.; Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al.] 4: 382 (1904)
= Oxystelma esculentum var. wallichii (Wight) T.Cooke; Fl. Bombay 2: 153 (1904)
= Oxystelma secamone (L.) H.Karst.; Deut. Fl. [Karsten] 1031 (1880 publ. 1883)
= Oxystelma secamone (L.) Schum.; Nat. Pflanzenfam. [Engler & Prantl] IV, 2: 229 (1895), isonym
= Oxystelma secamone var. wallichii (Wight) M.A.Rahman & Wilcock; Blumea 34(2): 520 (1990)
= Oxystelma wallichii Wight; Contr. Bot. India [Wight] 54 (1834)
= Oxystelma zippelianum Blume; Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 1053 (1826)
= Periploca esculenta L.f.; Suppl. Pl. [Linnaeus f.] 168 (1782)
= Periploca secamone L.; Mant. Pl. Altera [Linnaeus] 216 (1771)
= Sarcostemma esculentum (L.f.) R.W.Holm; Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37: 482 (1950)
= Sarcostemma secamone (L.) Bennet; Indian Forester 95: 692 (1969)
= Secamone aegyptiaca Aiton; Hort. Kew., ed. 2 [W.T.Aiton] 2: 75 (1811)
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