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''Saba '' 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 exclud ...
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 1849. It is native to Madagascar, Comoros, and mainland Africa.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226. ;Species * '' Saba comorensis'' (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon - Madagascar, Comoros, Africa from Senegal to Somalia and south to Zimbabwe * ''
Saba senegalensis ''Saba senegalensis'', known as ''weda'' in the Mossi language, Moore, French language, French, and English language, English languages, is a fruit-producing plant of the Apocynaceae family, native to the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa. It h ...
'' (A.DC.) Pichon - Sahel from Senegal to Central African Republic * '' Saba thompsonii'' (A.Chev.) Pichon - W Africa (Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria)


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Rauvolfioideae Apocynaceae genera {{Apocynaceae-stub