''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the

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 ...

, established by

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in 1838. It is native to southern Africa,

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and eastern Asia from China to

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Description

As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrubs, glabrous or hoary. Leaves opposite, ovate or cordate, acuminate. Cymes axillary, umbelliform; flowers green. Sepals small. Corolla rotate, lobes broad, overlapping to the right. Coronal scales 5, hemispheric, fleshy, adnate to the column, spreading, inner angle cuspidate, the tooth incumbent on the anthers. Column very short, fleshy; anther-tips short inflexed ; pollen-masses one in each cell, cylindric-ohlong, shortly pedicelled, waxy, erect. Stigma conical or dome-shaped. Follicles thick, hard, winged or ribbed. Seeds comose."

Species

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accepted the following species: * ''

Dregea arabica ''Dregea arabica'', synonyms including ''Marsdenia robusta'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Apocynaceae, native to Socotra and mainland Yemen. It was first described by Joseph Decaisne in 1844. Conservation ''Marsdenia robusta'' ...

'' Decne., syn. ''Marsdenia robusta'' – Socotra, mainland Yemen * ''

Dregea cuneifolia ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrub ...

'' Tsiang & P.T.Li - Guangxi Province in China * ''

Dregea floribunda ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrub ...

'' E.Mey. - South Africa * ''

Dregea schumanniana ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrub ...

'' (Warb.) Schneidt, Liede & Meve * ''

Dregea sinensis ''Dregea sinensis '' is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae that is native to 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 populatio ...

'' Hemsl. - China (Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Zhejiang) * ''

Dregea stellaris ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrub ...

'' (Ridl.) Ridl. * ''

Dregea taynguyenensis ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrub ...

'' T.B.Tran & Rodda * ''

Dregea yunnanensis ''Dregea'' is a genus of vines in the Apocynaceae, established by Ernst Meyer in 1838. It is native to southern Africa, Yemen and eastern Asia from China to Sulawesi. Description As given in Flora of British India, Vol. 4 (1883): :"Twining shrub ...

'' (Tsiang) Tsiang & P.T.Li - China (Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan) ;Former species include: * ''Dregea volubilis'' (L.f.) Benth. ex Hook.f. → ''

Wattakaka volubilis ''Wattakaka volubilis'', synonyms including ''Dregea volubilis'', is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae that is native from north-east Pakistan eastwards to south China and southwards to Java. Regional names "Kodippaalai" in Tamil, "w ...

References

External links

photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, ''Dregea floribunda'', collected in South Africa
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3039314 Asclepiadoideae