''Chamaepentas'' is a
genus
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of
flowering plant
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s in the
family
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Rubiaceae
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.
[Bremekamp, Cornelis Eliza Bertus 1954. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeeling Natuurkunde, Sectie 2, Amsterdam 48(2): 46] It is native to tropical Africa.
Species
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Chamaepentas graniticola''
(E.A.Bruce) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania
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Chamaepentas greenwayi''
Bremek. - Tanzania
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Chamaepentas hindsioides''
(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deut ...
) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania, Kenya
**''Chamaepentas hindsioides'' var. ''glabrescens''
( Verdc.) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania, Kenya
**''Chamaepentas hindsioides'' var. ''hindsioides'' - Tanzania, Kenya
**''Chamaepentas hindsioides'' var. ''parensis''
( Verdc.) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania
**''Chamaepentas hindsioides'' var. ''williamsii''
( Verdc.) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania
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Chamaepentas longituba''
(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deut ...
) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania
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Chamaepentas nobilis''
(S.Moore
Spencer Le Marchant Moore (1 November 1850 – 14 March 1931) was an English botanist.
Biography
Moore was born in Hampstead. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, from about 1870 to 1879, wrote a number of botanical papers, and then work ...
) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Chamaepentas pseudomagnifica''
(M.Taylor) Kårehed & B.Bremer - Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania
References
External links
Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, ''Chamaepentas''
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Rubiaceae genera
Knoxieae