Keetia
Keetia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Rubiaceae |
Subfamily: | Ixoroideae |
Tribe: | Vanguerieae |
Genus: | Keetia E.Phillips |
Type species | |
Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson
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Keetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of climbers or scrambling shrubs, rarely small trees.
Distribution[]
The genus has a wide distribution area and occurs in tropical and southern Africa.
Taxonomy[]
It was originally described by Edwin Percy Phillips in 1926[1] and is named after J.D.M Keet, a South African forester and plant collector.[2] The type species was Keetia transvaalensis, which received its name from the region it was first collected, but is now included in Keetia gueinzii.[3]
Species[]
- Cheek
- Bridson
- Bridson
- Keetia bakossiorum Cheek
- Jongkind
- Bridson
- (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bridson
- Bridson
- Bridson
- Cheek
- Bridson
- Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson
- (Benth.)Bridson
- (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
- Keetia koritschoneri Bridson
- (K.Krause) Bridson
- Bridson
- Bridson
- (Hiern) Bridson
- (K.Krause) Bridson
- (Schumach. & Thonn.) Bridson
- O.Lachenaud & Q.Luke
- Jongkind
- Bridson
- Bridson
- Keetia purpurascens (Bullock) Bridson
- Bridson
- (De Wild.) Bridson
- (Hiern) Bridson
- (Robyns ex Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
- Bridson
- Cheek
- (Welw. ex Hiern) Bridson
- (Oliv.) Bridson
- (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
- (Klotzsch) Bridson
References[]
- ^ Phillips EP. 1926 "The genera of South African flowering plants, Edition 2." Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 10.
- ^ Gunn M, Codd LE (1981). Botanical exploration of southern Africa. Cape Town: Balkema.
- ^ Tilney PM, Van Wyk AE (2009). "Taxonomy of the genus Keetia (Rubiaceae-subfam. Ixoroideae-tribe Vanguerieae) in southern Africa, with notes on bacterial symbiosis as well as the structure of colleters and the stylar head complex". Bothalia. 39 (2): 165–175. doi:10.4102/abc.v39i2.242. hdl:2263/13491.
External links[]
Categories:
- Keetia
- Rubiaceae genera