''Cibirhiza'' is a genus of plants in 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 the ...
, first described as a genus in 1988. It is native to central and eastern
Africa
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and to the
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate ...
.
Species
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Cibirhiza albersiana
''Cibirhiza'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1988. It is native to central and eastern Africa and to the Arabian Peninsula.
Species
# ''Cibirhiza albersiana'' Kunz, Meve & Liede - Tanzania, Zambia
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Kunz, Meve & Liede - Tanzania, Zambia
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Cibirhiza dhofarensis''
P.Bruyns - Oman
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Cibirhiza spiculata''
Thulin & Goyder - E Ethiopia
[Thulin, M., Goyder, D. and Liede-Schuman, S. (2008) ''Cibirhiza spiculata'' (Apocynaceae), a remarkable new species from eastern Ethiopia. Kew Bulletin, 63(4): 617-624.]
References
Apocynaceae genera
Asclepiadoideae
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