Belonophora

Belonophora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Ixoroideae
Tribe:	Coffeeae
Genus:	Belonophora Hook.f.
Type species
Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.
Synonyms
Diplosporopsis Wernham Kerstingia K.Schum.

Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola.^[1] It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.^[2]

Species[]

• Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.
  • Belonophora coffeoides subsp. coffeoides - São Tomé (not seen since 1861, possibly extinct)
  • Belonophora coffeoides subsp. hypoglauca (Welw. ex Hiern) S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Benin, Ghana, Guinée, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
• Belonophora coriacea Hoyle - Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo
• Belonophora ongensis S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Cameroon, Gabon
• Belonophora talbotii (Wernham) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
• Belonophora wernhamii Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria, Cameroon

References[]

External links[]

• Belonophora in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

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