Antidesma is a genus of tropical plant in the family Phyllanthaceae formally described by Linnaeus in 1753. It is native to tropical Africa, S + E + SE Asia, Australia, and various oceanic islands. The greatest diversity occurs in Southeast Asia.
Bombax is a genus of mainly tropical trees in the mallow family. They are native to western Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and the subtropical regions of East Asia and northern Australia. It is distinguished from the genus Ceiba, which has whiter flowers.
Cerbera is a genus of evergreen trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar, and various islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Melhania is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
Calycosiphonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to tropical Africa from Ivory Coast to Sudan to Mozambique.
Palisota is a genus of plant in family Commelinaceae, first described in 1828. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Corynanthe johimbe, synonym Pausinystalia johimbe, common name yohimbe, is a plant species in the family Rubiaceae native to western and central Africa. Extracts from yohimbe have been used in traditional medicine in West Africa as an aphrodisiac, called in some languages burantashi, and have been marketed in developed countries as dietary supplements.
Mitragyna is a genus of trees in the family Rubiaceae found in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Africa. Members of this genus contain antimalarial and analgesic indole alkaloids.
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.
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.
Callichilia is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to tropical Africa.
Motandra is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae native to tropical Africa. As of August 2013 the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises 3 species:
- Motandra guineensis(Thonn.) A.DC. - widespread from Liberia to Sudan and south to Angola
- Motandra lujaeDe Wild. & T.Durand - Gabon, Congo, Cabinda, Equatorial Guinea, Zaire
- Motandra poecilophyllaWernham - Gabon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon
- Motandra erlangeriK.Schum = Oncinotis tenuilobaStapf
- Motandra glabrataBaill. = Oncinotis glabrata(Baill.) Stapf ex Hiern
- Motandra viridifloraK.Schum. = Baissea viridiflora(K.Schum.) de Kruif
- Motandra welwitschianaBaill. = Oncinotis hirtaOliv.
Oncinotis is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1849. It is native to Africa, including Madagascar. As of August 2013 the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises 7 species:
- Oncinotis glabrata(Baill.) Stapf ex Hiern - tropical Africa from Liberia to Tanzania, south to Angola
- Oncinotis gracilisStapf - tropical Africa from Liberia to Central African Republic, south to Angola
- Oncinotis hirtaOliv. - C Africa from Cameroon to Angola
- Oncinotis nitidaBenth. - W Africa from Liberia to Republic of Congo
- Oncinotis pontyiDubard - tropical Africa from Guinea to Uganda
- Oncinotis tenuilobaStapf - C + S Africa from Nigeria east to Sudan + Ethiopia, south to Cape Province
- Oncinotis tomentellaRadlk. - Madagascar
- Oncinotis axillarisK.Schum. = Baissea multifloraA.DC.
- Oncinotis campanulataK.Schum = Baissea campanulata(K.Schum.) de Kruif
- Oncinotis melanocephalaK.Schum. = Baissea myrtifolia(Benth.) Pichon
- Oncinotis subsessilisK.Schum. = Baissea campanulata(K.Schum.) de Kruif
- Oncinotis zygodioidesK.Schum. = Baissea zygodioides(K.Schum.) Stapf
Fockea is a genus of succulent scrubs native to Africa south of the equator. They are members of the Asclepiadoideae (milkweeds), a subfamily of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. Of the six recognized species, only the two most widely distributed extend north of southern Africa, with F. multiflora reaching as far north as Tanzania and F. angustifolia reaching to southern Kenya. Fockea are known as water roots, a reference to the bulbous caudex characteristic of most species, which is also edible in at least some species.
Megaphrynium is a genus of plants native to tropical Africa.
Hypselodelphys is a group of plants in the Marantaceae described as a genus in 1950. native to tropical Africa from Liberia to Uganda and south to Angola. It contains 8 recognized species:
Vincetoxicum oblongum is a species of plants in the family Apocynaceae, native from west tropical Africa to south-west Ethiopia. Its synonyms include Oncostemma cuspidatum, at one time placed as the only species in the genus Oncostemma.
Paracostus is a group of plants in the family Costaceae described as a genus in 2006. It is native to Borneo and to tropical Africa.
Heinsia is a small genus of flowering shrubs or small trees in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical Africa. The genus was first formally named in 1830 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.
Leptonychia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
