Vincetoxicum forsteri

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Vincetoxicum forsteri
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Vincetoxicum
Species:
V. forsteri
Binomial name
Vincetoxicum forsteri
Meve & Liede
Synonyms [2]

Vincetoxicum forsteri is a species of plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceaethat is endemic to Australia (New South Wales and Queensland). [2] It was first described by Paul Irwin Forster in 1992 as Tylophora linearis. [3]

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Description

The species is a herbaceous vine with clear sap and stems up to 2 m long. The dark green, linear leaves grow to 100 mm in length and 4 mm in width. The olive-green and dark purple flowers are 6–22 mm in diameter. The fruits are 95–100 mm long and 5 mm wide. [1]

Taxonomy

Vincetoxicum forsteri was first described by Paul Irwin Forster in 1992 as Tylophora linearis. [3] In 2018, Tylophora was synonymized with Vincetoxicum . [4] As the combination Vincetoxicum lineare had priority, being based on Pentatropis linearis first published in 1844, [5] a replacement name was needed, and Leide-Schumann and Meve published Vincetoxicum forsteri. [4] [6]

Distribution and habitat

The species is known from the Dubbo and Barraba areas of New South Wales and Glenmorgan in Queensland, where it grows in open forest, woodlands and dry scrub, in association with Melaleuca uncinata , Eucalyptus fibrosa , E. sideroxylon , E. albens , Callitris endlicheri , C. glaucophylla , Allocasuarina luehmannii , Acacia hakeoides , A. lineata , Myoporum spp., and Casuarina spp. [1]

Conservation

The species has been listed as Endangered under Australia's EPBC Act. The main potential threats include competition from invasive weeds, grazing, wildfire and timber harvesting. [1]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Asclepiadoideae</span> Subfamily of plants

The Asclepiadoideae are a subfamily of plants in the family Apocynaceae. Formerly, they were treated as a separate family under the name Asclepiadaceae, e.g. by APG II, and known as the milkweed family.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stapeliinae</span> Subtribe of flowering plants

Stapeliinae is a subtribe of flowering plants within the tribe Ceropegieae of the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of the family Apocynaceae. The subtribe comprises about 35 genera, including both the stem-succulent "stapeliads" and the horticulturally popular genera Brachystelma and Ceropegia. The largest number of genera are native to Africa, but a more limited number of genera are widespread in Arabia and Asia. Historically, a similarly circumscribed taxon was treated as a separate tribe, Stapelieae.

<i>Cynanchum</i> Genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family Apocynaceae

Cynanchum is a genus of about 300 species including some swallowworts, belonging to the family Apocynaceae. The taxon name comes from Greek kynos and anchein, hence the common name for several species is dog-strangling vine. Most species are non-succulent climbers or twiners. There is some evidence of toxicity.

<i>Vincetoxicum rossicum</i> Species of plant

Vincetoxicum rossicum is a flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is a perennial herb native to southern Europe and is a highly invasive plant growing in all of the Eastern United States, in the mid west, and southern Ontario and Quebec in Canada. It has several common names including swallowwort, pale swallowwort, and dog-strangling vine; though it does not actually strangle dogs, it can “strangle” native plants and small trees if it is in dense patches. There has historically been much confusion about the genus it belongs to, with authors placing it within Vincetoxicum and others within Cynanchum, but recent molecular and chemical analyses have shown it to belong in the genus Vincetoxicum.

Tylophora is a former genus of climbing plants or vines, first described as a genus in 1810. The genus was originally erected by Robert Brown for four species he described in Australia. It was synonymized with Vincetoxicum in 2018, a decision accepted by Plants of the World Online as of February 2023.

<i>Vincetoxicum</i> Genus of plants

Vincetoxicum is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. Although the species in Vincetoxicum have sometimes been included in Cynanchum, chemical and molecular evidence shows that Vincetoxicum is more closely related to Tylophora, now included in Vincetoxicum. The generic name means "poison-beater" in Botanical Latin because of the plants' supposed antidotal effects against snakebite.

<i>Vincetoxicum barbatum</i> Species of vine

Vincetoxicum barbatum, synonym Tylophora barbata, the bearded tylophora, is a small vine in the dogbane family. A common plant found south of Bulahdelah, New South Wales. The habitat is rainforest and moist eucalyptus forests in south eastern Australia. Not often seen in flower, but flowers are dark red, around 7 mm long on thin stalks. Broken branches produce watery or milky sap.

<i>Vincetoxicum polyanthum</i> Species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae

Vincetoxicum polyanthum, commonly known as coast tylophora, is a vine in the dogbane family Apocynaceae first described in 1891 by the German botanist Otto Kuntze. It is native to the Australian states of New South Wales, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. In the Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants identification key, it is still treated as Tylophora benthamii.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Periplocoideae</span> Subfamily of flowering plants

Periplocoideae is a subfamily of the dogbane plant family, Apocynaceae. It was not divided into tribes as of 2014.

Vincetoxicum diplostigma is a species of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It was originally described in 1895 as Diplostigma canescens, the only species in the genus Diplostigma. It is native to parts of eastern Africa and to Saudi Arabia.

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.

Pentatropis is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1834. It is native to Africa and southern Asia.

Paul Irwin Forster is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of Australia and related regions.

Vincetoxicum lineare is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae native to Australia. Known as the bush bean, it is an edible species of plant found in arid regions. As Rhyncharrhena linearis, the species was at one time the only species in the monotypic genus Rhyncharrhena.

<i>Vincetoxicum bracteatum</i>

Vincetoxicum bracteatum, synonyms including Tylophora pauciflora, is a species of climbing plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is commonly known as kiri aguna in Sri Lanka. It is edible and is used in traditional medicine. It was first described by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1821 as Cynanchum bracteatum.

Vincetoxicum rupicola is a species of plant in the dogbane family Apocynaceae that is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It was first described by Paul Irwin Forster in 1992 as Tylophora rupicola.

<i>Ruehssia</i> Genus of plants

Ruehssia is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae. It is also in the Asclepiadoideae subfamily and Marsdenieae tribe.

Vincetoxicum cameroonicum is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native from Benin to Uganda in tropical Africa. It was first described by N. E. Brown in 1895 as Tylophora cameroonica.

Vincetoxicum anomalum is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to the island of Bioko and Cameroon in the west of Africa, and from Uganda to KwaZulu-Natal and the island of Mayotte in the east of Africa. It was first described by N. E. Brown in 1908 as Tylophora anomala.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Approved Conservation Advice for Tylophora linearis" (PDF). Threatened Species. Department of the Environment, Australia. 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Vincetoxicum forsteri Meve & Liede". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Vincetoxicum forsteri Meve & Liede". The International Plant Names Index . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 Leide-Schumann, Sigrid & Meve, Ulrich (2018). "Vincetoxicum (Apocynaceae—Asclepiadoideae) expanded to include Tylophora and allies". Phytotaxa. 369 (3). doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.369.3.1.
  5. "Vincetoxicum lineare (Decne.) Meve & Liede". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  6. "Vincetoxicum lineare (Decne.) Meve & Liede". The International Plant Names Index . Retrieved 6 March 2023.