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Apocynoideae
Apocynoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Apocynaceae (order Gentianales). It contains about 78 genera with roughly 860 species. Several genera are of pharmacological interest - notably those - such as Strophanthus - which have furnished highly effective arrow poisons, due to their cardiac glycoside content. The subfamily includes many species with flowers of considerable ornamental value, the best-known of which is ''Nerium oleander'', the familiar Oleander. It also contains the remarkable pachycaul genera ''Adenium'' and ''Pachypodium''. Genera Gallery File:Adenium-obesum-001.jpg, ''Adenium obesum'' File:Aganonerion polymorphum.jpg, '' Aganonerion polymorphum'' File:Aganosma cymosa G.Don.jpg, ''Aganosma cymosa'' File:Alafia caudata subsp. latiloba S-1653.jpg, '' Alafia caudata'' subsp. latiloba File:Amphineurion marginatum (Roxb.) D.J.Middleton Apocynaceae (26195863217).jpg, '' Amphineurion marginatum'' File:Beaumontia grandiflora (1).jpg, '' Beaumontia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerium Oleander
''Nerium oleander'' ( ), most commonly known as oleander or nerium, is a shrub or small tree cultivated worldwide in temperate and subtropical areas as an ornamental and landscaping plant. It is the only species currently classified in the genus ''Nerium'', belonging to subfamily Apocynoideae of the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is so widely cultivated that no precise region of origin has been identified, though it is usually associated with the Mediterranean Basin. Nerium grows to tall. It is most commonly grown in its natural shrub form, but can be trained into a small tree with a single trunk. It is tolerant to both drought and inundation, but not to prolonged frost. White, pink or red five-lobed flowers grow in clusters year-round, peaking during the summer. The fruit is a long narrow pair of follicles, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds. Nerium contains several toxic compounds, and it has historically been considered a poisonous plant. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the family are native to the European, Asian, African, Australian, and American tropics or subtropics, with some temperate members. The former family Asclepiadaceae (now known as Asclepiadoideae) is considered a subfamily of Apocynaceae and contains 348 genera. A list of Apocynaceae genera may be found here. Many species are tall trees found in tropical forests, but some grow in tropical dry (xeric) environments. Also perennial herbs from temperate zones occur. Many of these plants have milky latex, and many species are poisonous if ingested, the family being rich in genera containing alkaloids and cardiac glycosides, those containing the latter often finding use as arrow poisons. Some genera of Apocynaceae, such as '' Adenium'', bleed clea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Papuechites
''Papuechites'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1925. It contains only one known species, ''Papuechites aambe'', native to New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...n Province of Maluku.Middleton, D.J. (2007). Apocynaceae (subfamilies Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae). Flora Malesiana 18: 1-474. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta. ;formerly included * ''Papuechites novoguineensis'' (K.Schum.) Markgr. = '' Micrechites novoguineensis'' K.Schum. * ''Papuechites warianus'' (Schltr.) Markgr. = '' Micrechites warianus'' (Schltr.) D.J.Middleton References Flora of Papuasia Flora of the Maluku Islands Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Apocyneae {{Apocynaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anodendron
''Anodendron'' is a genus of plant in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1844. It is native to most of tropical Asia: China, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and some islands of the western Pacific.Middleton, D.J. (2007). Apocynaceae (subfamilies Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae). Flora Malesiana 18: 1-474. Noordhoff-Kolff N.V., Djakarta. Species , Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: # '' Anodendron affine'' (Hook. & Arn.) Druce - China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh # '' Anodendron axillare'' Merr. - Philippines, Borneo, W Malaysia, Java, Sumatra # '' Anodendron benthamianum'' Hemsl. - Taiwan # '' Anodendron borneense'' (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton - Borneo, Palawan # '' Anodendron candolleanum'' Wight - Thailand, W Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, Philippines # ''Anodendron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pachypodium
''Pachypodium'' is a genus of succulent spine-bearing trees and shrubs, native to Madagascar and Africa. It belongs to the family Apocynaceae. Genus characteristics All ''Pachypodium'' are succulent plants that exhibit, to varying degrees, the morphological characteristics of pachycaul trunks and spinescence. These are the most general features of the genus and can be considered distinguishing characteristics. The pachycaul trunk is a morphologically enlarged trunk that stores water so as to survive seasonal drought or intermittent periods of root desiccation in exposed, dry, and rocky conditions. Whereas there is great variation in the habit of the plant body, all ''Pachypodium'' exhibit pachycaul growth. Variation in habit can range from dwarf flattened plants to bottle shaped shrubs to dendroid-shaped trees. The second general characteristic of ''Pachypodium'' is spinescence, or having spines. The spines come clustered in either pairs or triplets with these clusters ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocynum Venetum
''Apocynum venetum'', commonly known as sword-leaf dogbane, is a plant species in the dogbane family, poisonous but used as a source of fiber, medicine, and nectar for production of honey. Distribution and habitat ''Apocynum venetum'' is considered to be native to a wide range in northern Asia and SE Europe: Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Ex/Yugoslavia, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Siberia, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, Cyprus, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and Japan. It grows in swamps, wet places, and maritime sands. Uses ''Apocynum venetum'' fibers can be extracted from the ''A. venetum'' bast; these fibers possess the luster of silk, smoothness of ramie, malleability of cashmere, and the softness of cotton. ''Apocynum venetum'' leaves have been used in the traditional medicine for hypertension Hypertension (HTN or HT), also known as high blood pressure (HBP), is a long-term medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated. High blood pressur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumontia
''Beaumontia'' is a small genus of evergreen woody vines in the milkweed family. It is native to China, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. Description ''Beaumontia'' plants are often rampant climbers and vines. They are mostly evergreen, though in subtropical gardens '' Beaumontia grandiflora'' loses many leaves in winter. Leaves are large, smooth and opposite with sticky white sap from petiolar glands. The large white fragrant flowers are borne in corymbs terminal and in the leaf axils. The calyx is 5-lobed and the corolla is dark funnel-or bell-shaped with 5 lobes. Stamens are attached near the base of the corolla tube and have slender filaments with arrow-shaped anthers. They are very showy when in full bloom and are regarded as among the most outstanding vines of the world. The fruits (seed capsules) comprises a pair of thick woody follicles. The seeds are compressed, apex gradually narrows with a silky coma (a tuft of hairs). Taxonomy The genus was circumscribe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chonemorpha Fragrans - Franginpani Vine Flowers1
''Chonemorpha'' is a genus that consists of large evergreen vigorous woody vines with milky sap from India, Sri Lanka, to Southeast Asia, the Philippines and South China. Growing dormant in sub-tropical and tropical climates and usually losing leaves if temperature gets below 60F. The plants have pubescent to almost tomentose branches, leaves and inflorescences. Large, corrugated, ovate leaves to 40 cm long, deep glossy green, opposite, pale and hairy beneath. Very fragrant, funnel-shaped, showy flowers to 8 cm across with long-peduncled and terminal cymes. Corolla cream with yellow center. Disk cupular with many seeds, ovate-shaped, compressed, with scanty endosperm, with a tuft of hairs at one end, dark brown. The plant is widely grown as a fence cover. ;Species # '' Chonemorpha assamensis'' Furtado - Assam, Bangladesh # '' Chonemorpha eriostylis'' Pit. in H.Lecomte - Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam # ''Chonemorpha floccosa'' Tsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi # ''Chonemorpha fragra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentalinon Luteum
''Pentalinon luteum'', commonly known as hammock viper's-tail, licebush, wild allamanda, wild wist yellow mandevilla, and yellow dipladenia, is a vine native to islands of the Caribbean, Honduras, and the U.S. state of Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to .... References External links * luteum Flora of North America Garden plants of North America Plants described in 1756 {{Apocynaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vallaris
''Vallaris'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1768. It is native to China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. ;Species * ''Vallaris glabra'' (L.) Kuntze – bread flower, ''kesidang'' (Malay language, Malay) – Java, Flores, Sumatra; naturalized in W Malaysia, Thailand, Christmas Island * ''Vallaris indecora'' (Baill.) Tsiang & P.T.Li – Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan * ''Vallaris solanacea'' (Roth) Kuntze – India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Hainan; naturalized in Andaman Islands ;formerly included # ''Vallaris anceps = Kibatalia macrophylla'' # ''Vallaris angustifolia = Kibatalia gitingensis'' # ''Vallaris arborea = Kibatalia macrophylla'' # ''Vallaris clavata = Echites clavatus'' # ''Vallaris daronensis = Kibatalia maingayi'' # ''Vallaris divaricata = Strophanthus divaricatus'' # ''Vallaris fimbriata = Euphorbia mammillaris'' # ''Vallaris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parepigynum
''Parepigynum'' is a genus of liana in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1973. It contains only one known species, ''Parepigynum funingense'', native to Guizhou and Yunnan Provinces in China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and .... The species is listed as endangered. References Apocyneae Endemic flora of China Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Endangered flora of Asia Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Apocynaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
