Rhyssolobium

Rhyssolobium is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae , first described as a genus in 1838.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Rhyssolobium dumosum, endemic to South Africa.[3]

Rhyssolobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Marsdenieae
Genus: Rhyssolobium
E.Mey.
Species:
R. dumosum
Binomial name
Rhyssolobium dumosum
Synonyms[1]

Astephanus dumosus (E.Mey.) D.Dietr.

References

  1. Tropicos, genus Rhyssolobium
  2. Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 217. in Latin
  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).


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