Manilkara is a genus of trees in the family Sapotaceae. They are widespread in tropical and semitropical locations, in Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, as well as various islands in the Pacific and in the Caribbean. A close relative is the genus Pouteria.
Costus is a group of herbaceous perennial plants in the family Costaceae, described by Linnaeus as a genus in 1753. It was formerly known as Hellenia after the Finnish botanist Carl Niclas von Hellens. It is widespread through tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Beilschmiedia is a genus of trees and shrubs in family Lauraceae. Most of its species grow in tropical climates, but a few of them are native to temperate regions, and they are widespread in tropical Asia, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. The best-known species to gardeners in temperate areas are B. berteroana and B. miersii because of their frost tolerance. Seeds of B. bancroftii were used as a source of food by Australian Aborigines. Timbers of some species are very valuable.
Bertiera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises 57 species with most known from tropical Africa, five known from various Indian Ocean islands and five found in the tropics of the Americas.
Isolona is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. There are 21 species native to Africa. They occur in humid habitat types.
Pauridiantha is an afrotropical genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.
Sericanthe is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in tropical and subtropical Africa. The genus was described by Elmar Robbrecht in 1978 based on the species in Neorosea, except for the type species, Neorosea jasminiflora, which went to Tricalysia. Bacterial leaf nodules are found in most of the species and the endophytic bacteria have been identified as Burkholderia.
Sorindeia is a genus of some three dozen plant species that are native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Comoro Islands and Mascarene Islands. They are distinguished by their compound leaves, large inflorescences and distinctive fruit. In the case of S. madagascariensis, as many as 200 fruit may be carried on a pendant cluster.
Tricalysia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical and southern Africa and on the islands in the Western Indian Ocean.
Uvariopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Annonaceae. The genus is unique to Africa, and consists of about 18 species, all of which are either ramiflorous, cauliflorous or both.
Salacia is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. They are woody climbers naturally found in tropical regions.
Culcasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical Africa. Most of its species are climbers and resemble Cercestis, except that they do not produce flagella.
- Culcasia angolensisWelw. ex Schott - western + central Africa from Senegal to Angola
- Culcasia annetiiNtépé-Nyamè - Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia
- Culcasia bosiiNtépé-Nyamè - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
- Culcasia brevipetiolataBogner - Gabon
- Culcasia caudataEngl. - Zaïre
- Culcasia dinklageiEngl - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia ekongoloiNtépé-Nyamè - central Africa from Nigeria to Zaïre
- Culcasia falcifoliaEngl. - central Africa from Gabon east to Tanzania and south to Mozambique
- Culcasia glandulosaHepper - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville
- Culcasia insulanaN.E.Br. - Zaïre, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Culcasia lanceolataEngl. - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia libericaN.E.Br. - Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo
- Culcasia linearifoliaBogner - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia loukandensisPellegr - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre, Central African Republic
- Culcasia mannii(Hook.f.) Engl. - Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea
- Culcasia obliquifoliaEngl. - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia orientalisMayo - Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia
- Culcasia panduriformisEngl. & K.Krause - Cameroon, Gabon
- Culcasia parvifloraN.E.Br. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia rotundifoliaBogner - Gabon
- Culcasia sanagensisNtépé-Nyamè - Cameroon
- Culcasia scandensP.Beauv. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Angola
- Culcasia seretiiDe Wild - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia simiarumNtépé-Nyamè - western Africa from Ivory Coast to Cameroon
- Culcasia striolataEngl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Congo-Brazzaville
- Culcasia tenuifoliaEngl. - western + central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre
- Culcasia yangambiensisLouis & Mullend. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaïre
Cuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae native to tropical Africa. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.
Globulostylis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises 8 species growing in Central Africa.
Cola is a genus of trees native to the tropical forests of Africa, classified in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Sterculioideae. Species in this genus are sometimes referred to as kola tree or kola nut for the caffeine-containing fruit produced by the trees that is often used as a flavoring ingredient in beverages. The genus was thought to be closely related to the South American genus Theobroma, or cocoa, but the latter is now placed in a different subfamily. They are evergreen trees, growing up to 20 m tall, with glossy ovoid leaves up to 30 cm long and star-shaped fruit.
Craterispermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It contains 16 species that occur in tropical Africa and Seychelles. It is the only genus in the tribe Craterispermeae, of which the divergence time is estimated at 34.8 million years ago.
Empogona is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar. It was for a time deemed a subgenus or section of Tricalysia.
Dichapetalum is a genus in the plant family Dichapetalaceae. The plants are tropical lianas native mainly to tropical regions of Africa, Asia, Malesia, the West Indies, Australia and Latin America. Some species are known to be poisonous due to the presence of toxic fluorinated compounds such as fluorocarboxylic acid and dichapetalins, a unique class of cytotoxic compounds that are only found within this genus.
