Sacleuxia

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Sacleuxia
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Clade: Lamiids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Sacleuxia
Baill.
Synonyms
  • Gymnolaema Benth.
  • Macropelma K.Schum.

Sacleuxia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.[1] It is also in the Periplocoideae sufamily.

It is native to Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Tropical Africa.[1]

The genus name of Sacleuxia is in honour of Charles Sacleux (1856–1943), a French Catholic missionary and linguist. He is known also as a botanist, having collected a herbarium of over 2000 plants in East Africa and Zanzibar.[2] It was first described and published in Hist. Pl. Vol.10 on page 265 in 1890.[1]

The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they note it could be a possible synonym of Cryptolepis R. Br.[3]

Known species[]

According to Kew;[1]

  • (Benth.) Bullock
  • (E.A.Bruce) Bullock

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Sacleuxia Baill. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Genus Sacleuxia Baill". npgsweb.ars-grin.gov. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
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