''Margaretta'' 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 1875. A dozen names have been proposed as species within ''Margaretta'', but at present only one, ''Margaretta rosea'', is categorized as "accepted" by

The Plant List The Plant List was a list of botanical names of species of plants created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Missouri Botanical Garden and launched in 2010. It was intended to be a comprehensive record of all known names of plant species ...

. Most of the rest are "unresolved," in other words, of uncertain affinity.The Plant List, Kew Gardens, genus ''Margaretta''
/ref> ''Margaretta rosea'' is native to

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...

in eastern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

.Tropicos, ''Margaretta rosea'' Oliv
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* Flora of Africa Asclepiadoideae Monotypic Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by Daniel Oliver {{Apocynaceae-stub