''Hunteria'' is a genus of

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

s 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 ...

first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to

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and to South and Southeast

Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable geographical regions, which is either considered a continent in its own right or a subcontinent of Eurasia, which shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with Africa. Asia covers an are ...

. ;Species # '' Hunteria ballayi'' Hua - Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon # '' Hunteria camerunensis'' K.Schum. ex Hallier f. - Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon # '' Hunteria congolana'' Pichon - Republic of Congo, Zaïre, Kenya # '' Hunteria densiflora'' Pichon - Zaïre # '' Hunteria ghanensis'' J.B.Hall & Leeuwenb. - Ivory Coast, Ghana # '' Hunteria hexaloba'' (Pichon) Omino - Gabon # '' Hunteria macrosiphon'' Omino - Republic of Congo, Gabon # '' Hunteria myriantha'' Omino - Zaïre # '' Hunteria oxyantha'' Omino - Republic of Congo, Zaïre, Gabon # '' Hunteria simii'' (Stapf) H.Huber - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone # '' Hunteria umbellata'' (K.Schum) Hallier f. - W + C Africa from Senegal to Zaïre # ''

Hunteria zeylanica ''Hunteria zeylanica'' grows as either an evergreen shrub or as a tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . Its flowers feature a white corolla. The berries are yellow. Its habitat is forests from sea level to altitude. The trees can w ...

'' (Retz.) Gardner ex Thwaites - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, S China, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Indochina, W Malaysia, Sumatra

References

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