Keetia

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Keetia
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Keetia gueinzii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Dialypetalanthoideae
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.

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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

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 (2): 165–175. doi:10.4102/abc.v39i2.242. hdl: 2263/13491 .
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