Heterostemma

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Heterostemma
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Unidentified Heterostemma species
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Ceropegieae
Genus: Heterostemma
R.Br. 1810

Heterostemma is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described in 1834. [1] It is native to India, China, Southeast Asia, Australia, and certain islands in the Pacific. [2] [3] [4]

Species [5]

The Plant List categorizes many species names in Heterostemma as "unresolved," i.e., of uncertain affinity. The following are accepted:

  1. Heterostemma acuminatum Decne. - Java
  2. Heterostemma brownii Hayata - S China incl Taiwan
  3. Heterostemma esquirolii (H.Lév.) Tsiang - Thailand, S China
  4. Heterostemma grandiflorum Costantin - Vietnam, S China
  5. Heterostemma lobulatum Y.H.Li & Konta - Yunnan
  6. Heterostemma magnificum P.I.Forst. - Northern Territory of Australia
  7. Heterostemma menghaiense (H.Zhu & H.Wang) M.G.Gilbert & P.T.Li - Yunnan, Hainan, Taiwan
  8. Heterostemma oblongifolium Costantin - Vietnam, Laos, S China
  9. Heterostemma samoense (A. Gray) P.I. Forst. - Samoa
  10. Heterostemma siamicum Craib - Thailand, Vietnam, S China
  11. Heterostemma sinicum Tsiang - Hainan
  12. Heterostemma tsoongii Tsiang - S China
  13. Heterostemma wallichii Wight & Arn. - Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan

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  1. Anodendron affine(Hook. & Arn.) Druce - China, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh
  2. Anodendron axillareMerr. - Philippines, Borneo, W Malaysia, Java, Sumatra
  3. Anodendron benthamianumHemsl. - Taiwan
  4. Anodendron borneense(King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton - Borneo, Palawan
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  6. Anodendron coriaceum(Blume) Miq. - Thailand, W Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor, Flores
  7. Anodendron gracile(King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton - Borneo, Palawan, W Malaysia
  8. Anodendron howiiTsiang - Guangxi, Hainan
  9. Anodendron nervosumKerr - Yunnan, Assam, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra
  10. Anodendron oblongifoliumHemsl. - Borneo, Philippines, Maluku, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
  11. Anodendron paniculatum(Roxb.) A.DC. - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Is, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
  12. Anodendron pauciflorumHook.f - Borneo, W Malaysia, Sumatra
  13. Anodendron punctatumTsiang - Cambodia, Thailand, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan
  14. Anodendron seramenseD.J.Middleton - Maluku
  15. Anodendron tubulosum(Ridl. ex Burkill & M.R.Hend.) D.J.Middleton - W Malaysia, Sumatra
  16. Anodendron whitmoreiD.J.Middleton - Maluku, New Guinea, Solomon Islands
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Premna is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae, first described for modern science in 1771. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia, and various islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

  1. Premna acuminataR.Br. - Australia, New Guinea
  2. Premna acutataW.W.Sm. - southwestern China
  3. Premna albaH.J.Lam - Palau
  4. Premna ambongensisMoldenke - Madagascar
  5. Premna amplectensWall. ex Schauer - Thailand, Myanmar
  6. Premna angolensisGürke - tropical Africa
  7. Premna angustifloraH.J.Lam - Palau
  8. Premna annulataH.R.Fletcher - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
  9. Premna aureolepidotaMoldenke - Madagascar
  10. Premna balakrishnaniiA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
  11. Premna balansaeDop - Vietnam
  12. Premna barbataWall. ex Schauer - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
  13. Premna bengalensisC.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, Vietnam
  14. Premna bequaertiiMoldenke - Uganda, Rwanda, Zaïre
  15. Premna bracteataWall. ex C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar
  16. Premna cambodianaDop - Cambodia, Vietnam
  17. Premna cavalerieiH.Lév - China
  18. Premna chevalieriDop - Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China
  19. Premna chrysoclada(Bojer) Gürke - Kenya, Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau
  20. Premna collinsaeCraib - Thailand
  21. Premna confinisC.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China
  22. Premna congolensisMoldenke - Zaïre, Angola, Cabinda
  23. Premna cordifoliaRoxb. - Thailand, Vietnam, Malaya
  24. Premna coriaceaC.B.Clarke - Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Andaman Islands
  25. Premna corymbosaRottler - India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
  26. Premna crassaHand.-Mazz. - Vietnam, China
  27. Premna debianaA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Arunachal Pradesh
  28. Premna decaryiMoldenke - Madagascar
  29. Premna decurrensH.J.Lam - Indonesia
  30. Premna discolorVerdc. - Kenya
  31. Premna dubiaCraib - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  32. Premna esculentaRoxb. - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand
  33. Premna fohaiensisC.Pei & S.L.Chen ex C.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
  34. Premna fordiiDunn - China
  35. Premna fulvaCraib - Indochina, Indonesia, China
  36. Premna garrettiiH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
  37. Premna glaberrimaWight - southern India
  38. Premna glandulosaHand.-Mazz. - China (Yunnan)
  39. Premna gracillimaVerdc. - Kenya, Tanzania
  40. Premna grandifoliaA.D.J. Meeuse, illegitimate name, = Premna hutchinsonii
  41. Premna grossaWall. ex Schauer - Myanmar
  42. Premna guillauminiiMoldenke - New Caledonia
  43. Premna hainanensisChun & F.C.How - China (Hainan)
  44. Premna hans-joachimiiVerdc. - Tanzania
  45. Premna henryana(Hand.-Mazz.) C.Y.Wu - China
  46. Premna herbaceaRoxb. - Himalayas, Yunnan, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, northern Australia
  47. Premna hildebrandtiiGürke - Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  48. Premna hispidaBenth. - West Africa
  49. Premna humbertiiMoldenke - Madagascar
  50. Premna hutchinsoniiMoldenke - Ivory Coast
  51. Premna interruptaWall. ex Schauer - southern China, Himalayas, Indochina
  52. Premna jalpaigurianaT.K.Paul - West Bengal
  53. Premna khasianaC.B.Clarke - Assam, Thailand
  54. Premna lepidellaMoldenke - Madagascar
  55. Premna ligustroidesHemsl - China
  56. Premna longiacuminataMoldenke - Madagascar
  57. Premna longifoliaRoxb. - Himalayas
  58. Premna longipetiolataMoldenke - Madagascar
  59. Premna lucensA.Chev. - West Africa
  60. Premna macrophyllaWall. ex Schauer - Assam, Indochina
  61. Premna madagascariensisMoldenke - Madagascar
  62. Premna mariannarumSchauer - Mariana Islands
  63. Premna matadiensisMoldenke - Zaïre, Angola
  64. Premna maximaT.C.E. Fr. - Kenya
  65. Premna mekongensisW.W.Sm. - China (Yunnan)
  66. Premna micranthaSchauer - India, Assam, Bangladesh
  67. Premna microphyllaTurcz. - Japan, Ryukyu Islands, China
  68. Premna millefloraC.B.Clarke - Assam
  69. Premna milneiBaker - Nigeria, Bioko
  70. Premna minorDomin - Queensland
  71. Premna mollissimaRoth - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Indochina, Philippines
  72. Premna mooiensis(H.Pearson) W.Piep - Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa
  73. Premna mortehaniiDe Wild - Zaïre
  74. Premna mundanthuraiensisA.Rajendran & P.Daniel - Tamil Nadu
  75. Premna neurophyllaChiov. - Ethiopia
  76. Premna oblongataMiq. - Indonesia, Philippines
  77. Premna odorataBlanco - - Indian Subcontinent, Yunnan, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, northern Australia; naturalized in Miami-Dade County in Florida
  78. Premna oliganthaC.Y.Wu - China
  79. Premna oligotrichaBaker - Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania
  80. Premna orangeanaCapuron - Madagascar
  81. Premna paisehensisC.Pei & S.L.Chen - China (Guangxi)
  82. Premna pallescensRidl.- Borneo, Indonesia
  83. Premna parasiticaBlume - Indonesia
  84. Premna parvilimbaC.Pei - China (Yunnan)
  85. Premna paucinervis(C.B.Clarke) Gamble - Kerala, Tamil Nadu
  86. Premna paulobarbataH.J.Lam - Mariana Islands
  87. Premna perplexansMoldenke - Madagascar
  88. Premna perrieriMoldenke - Madagascar
  89. Premna pinguisC.B.Clarke - Assam, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Java
  90. Premna politaHiern - Angola
  91. Premna procumbensMoon - India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
  92. Premna protrusaA.C.Sm. & S.Darwin - Fiji
  93. Premna puberulaPamp. - China
  94. Premna pubescensBlume - Indonesia, Philippines, Christmas Island
  95. Premna puerensisY.Y.Qian - China (Yunnan)
  96. Premna punduanaWall. ex Schauer - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bangladesh
  97. Premna puniceaC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
  98. Premna purpurascensThwaites - Sri Lanka
  99. Premna quadrifoliaSchumach. & Thonn. - West Africa
  100. Premna rabakensisMoldenke - Cambodia
  101. Premna regularisH.J.Lam - Philippines, Indonesia, New Guinea
  102. Premna repensH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
  103. Premna resinosa(Hochst.) Schauer - East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, India
  104. Premna richardsiaeMoldenke - Tanzania
  105. Premna rubroglandulosaC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
  106. Premna scandensRoxb. - China (Yunnan), Himalayas, Andaman Island, Indochina
  107. Premna schimperiEngl - East Africa
  108. Premna schliebeniiWerderm. - Tanzania, Mozambique
  109. Premna scoriarumW.W.Sm. - Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar
  110. Premna senensisKlotzsch - eastern + central Africa
  111. Premna serrataH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
  112. Premna serratifoliaL. - widespread in East Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, northern Australia, islands of Pacific + Indian Oceans
  113. Premna siamensisH.R.Fletcher - Thailand
  114. Premna stenobotrysMerr. - Vietnam
  115. Premna steppicolaHand.-Mazz. - China
  116. †Premna sterculiifoliaKing & Gamble - Malaya but extinct
  117. Premna straminicaulisC.Y.Wu - China (Yunnan)
  118. Premna subcapitataRehder - China
  119. Premna sulphurea(Baker) Gürke - Angola
  120. Premna sunyiensisC.Pei - China (Guangdong)
  121. Premna szemaoensisPei - China (Yunnan)
  122. Premna tahitensisJ.Schauer - many islands of the Pacific
  123. Premna tanganyikensisMoldenke - Tanzania, Mozambique
  124. Premna tapintzeanaDop - China (Yunnan)
  125. Premna teniiC.Pei - China (Yunnan)
  126. Premna thoreliiDop - Laos
  127. Premna thwaitesiiC.B.Clarke - Sri Lanka
  128. Premna tomentosaWilld. - Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Queensland, Solomon Islands
  129. Premna trichostomaMiq. - Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea
  130. Premna urticifoliaRehder - China (Yunnan)
  131. Premna velutinaGürke - Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  132. Premna venulosaMoldenke - Madagascar
  133. Premna wightianaSchauer - India, Sri Lanka
  134. Premna wuiBoufford & B.M.Barthol. - China (Yunnan)
  135. Premna yunnanensisW.W.Sm - China
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Beaumontia is a small genus of evergreen woody vines in the Apocynaceae. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.

<i>Chonemorpha</i> Genus of plants

Chonemorpha is a genus that consists of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Sri Lanka, to Southeast Asia, the Philippines and South China. Growing dormant in sub-tropical and tropical climates and usually losing leaves if temperature gets below 60F. The plants have pubescent to almost tomentose branches, leaves and inflorescences. Large, corrugated, ovate leaves to 40 cm long, deep glossy green, opposite, pale and hairy beneath. Very fragrant, funnel-shaped, showy flowers to 8 cm across with long-peduncled and terminal cymes. Corolla cream with yellow center. Disk cupular with many seeds, ovate-shaped, compressed, with scanty endosperm, with a tuft of hairs at one end, dark brown. The plant is widely grown as a fence cover.

  1. Chonemorpha assamensisFurtado - Assam, Bangladesh
  2. Chonemorpha eriostylisPit. in H.Lecomte - Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam
  3. Chonemorpha floccosaTsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi
  4. Chonemorpha fragrans(Moon) Alston - China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines
  5. Chonemorpha megacalyxPierre ex Spire - Yunnan, Laos, Thailand
  6. Chonemorpha mollisMiq. - Java
  7. Chonemorpha parvifloraTsiang & P.T.Li - Yunnan, Guangxi
  8. Chonemorpha pedicellataRao - W Himalayas
  9. Chonemorpha splendensChun & Tsiang - Yunnan, Hainan
  10. Chonemorpha verrucosa(Blume) D.J.Middleton - Guangdong, Hainan, Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Indochina
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Urceola is a plant genus in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1798. It is native to China, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and New Guinea.

  1. Urceola brachysepalaHook.f. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines
  2. Urceola elasticaRoxb. - Borneo, Java, W Malaysia, Sumatra
  3. Urceola huaitingii(Chun & Tsiang) Mabb. - Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
  4. Urceola javanica(Blume) Boerl. - Borneo, Java, Maluku, Sumatra, Sulawesi, New Guinea
  5. Urceola laevis(Elmer) Merr. - Palawan, Sabah, Sulawesi
  6. Urceola lakhimpurensis(S.K.Srivast. & Mehrotra) Karthik. & Moorthy - Assam
  7. Urceola latifolia(Pierre ex Spire) Mabb. - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  8. Urceola lucida(A.DC.) Benth. ex Kurz - Myanmar, Thailand, W Malaysia, Sumatra
  9. Urceola malayanaMabb. - Cameron Highlands of W Malaysia
  10. Urceola micrantha(Wall. ex G.Don) Mabb. - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Tibet, Yunnan, Ryukyu Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Arunachal Pradesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, W Malaysia
  11. Urceola minutiflora(Pierre) Mabb. - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  12. Urceola napeensis(Quint.) Mabb. - Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi
  13. Urceola quintaretii(Pierre) Mabb. - Laos, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi
  14. Urceola rosea(Hook. & Arn.) D.J.Middleton - Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, W Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan
  15. Urceola torulosaHook.f. - W Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo
  16. Urceola tournieri(Pierre) Mabb. - Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  17. Urceola xylinabariopsoides(Tsiang) Mabb. - Hainan, Vietnam
<i>Cleghornia</i> Genus of plants

Cleghornia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae; its various species are distributed in Borneo, China, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.

<i>Micromelum</i> Genus of flowering plants

Micromelum is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae.

<i>Hypericum gramineum</i> Species of flowering plant in the St Johns wort family Hypericaceae

Hypericum gramineum, commonly known as small St. John's wort or grassy St. Johnswort, is species of flowering plant in the St. Johns wort family Hypericaceae. It is found in parts of Southeast Asia, Oceania, and the Pacific.

Gongronema is a genus of plants first described as a genus in 1844. Some of the species are native to Africa, with others in South and Southeast Asia.

Toxocarpus is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It is native to China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia.

<i>Microlepia</i> Genus of ferns

Microlepia is a genus of ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae described as a genus in 1836. Most of the species are native to Asia, with many endemic to China, although a few species occur also in Australia, Africa, the West Indies, Latin America, and various oceanic islands.

References

  1. ↑ Wight, Robert. 1834. Contributions to the Botany of India 42
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. ↑ Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 263 醉魂藤属 zui hun teng shu Heterostemma Wight & Arnott in Wight, Contr. Bot. India. 42. 1834.
  4. ↑ Forster, P. I. 1992. A taxonomic revision of Heterostemma Wight & Arn. (Asclepiadaceae: Stapelieae) in Australia and the West Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 5: 71–80.
  5. ↑ The Plant List
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