''Riocreuxia'' is a plant genus 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 ...
'', and named in honour of the botanical illustrator
Alfred Riocreux
Alfred Riocreux (1820 Sevres - 1912 Paris), a French scientific illustrator and described as the "most distinguished botanical artist of his day".
Alfred's father was Denis-Désiré Riocreux (1791-1872), a porcelain painter at the 'Manufacture ...
(1820-1912). It was first described as a genus in 1844 and is native to Africa.
[Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).]
Species
Species from the Plant List
[The Plant List, genus ''Riocreuxia'']
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References
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Apocynaceae genera
Asclepiadoideae
Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne
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