Pachycarpus

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Pachycarpus
Pachycarpus schinzianus 1DS-II 1-1379.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Asclepiadeae
Genus: Pachycarpus
E.Mey.

Pachycarpus is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described in 1838.[1][2] It is native to Africa.[3]

Species[4]
  1. E.Mey. - South Africa
  2. Meisn. - South Africa
  3. (Oliv.) Goyder - Tanzania
  4. (Harv.) N.E.Br. - South Africa
  5. E.Mey. - South Africa
  6. E.Mey. - South Africa
  7. E.Mey. - South Africa
  8. N.E.Br. - South Africa
  9. (N.E.Br.) Bullock - SE Africa
  10. (Schltr.) Bullock - Rwenzori Mountains in Zaire + Uganda
  11. (N.E.Br.) Goyder - Angola
  12. (Schltr.) N.E.Br. - South Africa
  13. N.E.Br. - South Africa
  14. (K.Schum.) Bullock - Tanzania
  15. (R.Br.) E.Mey. - South Africa (given as (L.f.) E.Mey in The Plant List, but this is in error; basionym is R.Br. 1810, not the Mexican species L.f.)[5][6][7]
  16. (Oliv.) Bullock - E Africa
  17. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  18. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  19. D.M.N. Sm. - KwaZulu-Natal
  20. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  21. (Decne.) Bullock - Angola
  22. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  23. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  24. Bullock - Cameroon
  25. N.E. Br. - KwaZulu-Natal
  26. (Oliv.) Goyder - NE Africa
  27. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  28. E. Mey. - South Africa
  29. (K. Schum.) N.E. Br. - E + S Africa
  30. E.Mey. ex Eckl. & Zeyh. - South Africa
  31. (A. Rich.) Bullock - Ethiopia
  32. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  33. (Harv.) N.E. Br. - South Africa
  34. (Schltr.) N.E. Br. - South Africa
  35. (N.E.Br.) Bullock - C Africa
  36. (N.E. Br.) Bullock - Zambia
  37. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  38. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  39. (Schltr.) Nicholas & Goyder - South Africa
  40. (Schltr.) N.E. Br. - South Africa
  41. N.E. Br. - South Africa
  42. E. Mey. - South Africa
formerly included

moved to other genera (Asclepias, Gomphocarpus, Xysmalobium)

  1. P. albens now
  2. P. crispus now
  3. P. fulvus now
  4. P. gomphocarpoides now
  5. P. graminifolius now
  6. P. humilis now
  7. P. ligulatus now
  8. P. marginatus now
  9. P. orbicularis now
  10. P. viridiflorus now

References[]

  1. ^ Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Pachycarpus Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 209-215. in Latin
  2. ^ Tropicos, genus Pachycarpus
  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).
  4. ^ The Plant List
  5. ^ Brown, Robert. 1810. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 1: 39.
  6. ^ Tropicos Xysmalobium grandiflorum
  7. ^ Tropicos, Asclepias grandiflora distribution
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