Tavaresia

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Tavaresia
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Tavaresia meintjesii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Ceropegieae
Genus: Tavaresia
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Tavaresia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1902. [1] It is native to southern Africa. [2] [3]

Species [4]
  1. Tavaresia angolensis Welw. - Angola
  2. Tavaresia barklyi (Dyer) N.E.Br. - South Africa
  3. Tavaresia grandiflora Berger - South Africa
  4. Tavaresia meintjesii R.A. Dyer - Limpopo
formerly included [4]

Tavaresia thompsoniorumvan Jaarsv. & R.Nagel, syn of × Staparesia thompsoniorum (van Jaarsv. & R.Nagel) G.D.Rowley

Taxonomy

Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be most closely related to the genus Huernia , and to a widespread branch of stapeliads comprising the genera Orbea , Piaranthus and Stapelia . [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Dyer, William Turner Thiselton. 1902. Flora of tropical Africa 4(1): 494
  2. ↑ AFPD. 2008. African Flowering Plants Database - Base de Donnees des Plantes a Fleurs D'Afrique.
  3. ↑ Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
  4. 1 2 The Plant List
  5. ↑ P. Bruyns, C. Klak, P. Hanacek: Evolution of the stapeliads (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) - repeated major radiation across Africa in an Old World group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2014. v. 77, no. 1, p. 251--263. ISSN 1055-7903.
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