''Absolmsia'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s of the family
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 ...
of two species, native to Southwest of
China and
Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and ea ...
.
Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 262 滑藤 hua teng ''Tylophora oligophylla'' (Tsiang) M. G. Gilbert & W. D. Stevens & P. T. Li, Novon. 5: 14. 1995, synonym ''Absolmsia oligophylla'' Tsiang, Sunyatsenia 6: 121. 1941.
/ref> The genus commemorates Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
Hermann zu Solms-Laubach, more precisely Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich Graf zu Solms-Laubach (23 December 1842 in Laubach, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 24 November 1915 in Strasbourg) was a German botanist.
Life
Count Solms-Laubach st ...
.
Species
* '' Absolmsia oligophylla'' China: Yunnan
* ''Absolmsia spartioides
''Absolmsia'' is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae of two species, native to Southwest of China and Borneo. The genus commemorates Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
Hermann zu Solms-Laubach, more precisely Hermann Maximilian Carl ...
'' Borneo
References
Apocynaceae genera
Flora of Borneo
Flora of Yunnan
Asclepiadoideae
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