''Tavaresia'' 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 1902. It is native to southern Africa.
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# ''Tavaresia angolensis
''Tavaresia'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1902. It is native to southern Africa.
;Species
# '' Tavaresia angolensis'' Welw. - Angola
# '' Tavaresia barklyi'' (Dyer) N.E.Br. - South Africa
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'' Welw. - Angola
# ''Tavaresia barklyi
''Tavaresia'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1902. It is native to southern Africa.
;Species
# ''Tavaresia angolensis'' Welw. - Angola
# '' Tavaresia barklyi'' (Dyer) N.E.Br. - South Africa
# '' T ...
'' (Dyer) N.E.Br. - South Africa
# ''Tavaresia grandiflora
''Tavaresia'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1902. It is native to southern Africa.
;Species
# ''Tavaresia angolensis'' Welw. - Angola
# ''Tavaresia barklyi'' (Dyer) N.E.Br. - South Africa
# '' Ta ...
'' Berger - South Africa
# ''Tavaresia meintjesii
''Tavaresia'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1902. It is native to southern Africa.
;Species
# ''Tavaresia angolensis'' Welw. - Angola
# ''Tavaresia barklyi'' (Dyer) N.E.Br. - South Africa
# ''Tav ...
'' R.A. Dyer - Limpopo
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''Tavaresia thompsoniorum'' ''van Jaarsv. & R.Nagel,'' syn of × '' Staparesia thompsoniorum'' (van Jaarsv. & R.Nagel) G.D.Rowley
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Phylogenetic studies have shown the genus to be most closely related to the genus '']Huernia
The genus ''Huernia'' (family Apocynaceae, subfamily Asclepiadoideae) consists of perennial, stem succulents from Eastern and Southern Africa and Arabia, first described as a genus in 1810.Brown, Robert. 1810. On the Asclepiadeae 11
The flowers ...
'', and to a widespread branch of stapeliads comprising the genera ''Orbea
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'', ''Piaranthus
''Piaranthus'' is a succulent plant genus in the subfamily Asclepiadoideae, in the family Apocynaceae.
It was first described in 1810. Its name comes from Greek and is descriptive of the fleshy, succulent flowers typical of the genus (''"piar-" ...
'' and ''Stapelia
''Stapelia'' is a genus of low-growing, spineless, stem succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa with a few from other parts of Africa. Several Asian and Latin American species were formerly included but they have all now been transfe ...
''.[P. Bruyns, C. Klak, P. Hanacek: ''Evolution of the stapeliads (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) - repeated major radiation across Africa in an Old World group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.'' 2014. v. 77, no. 1, p. 251--263. ISSN 1055-7903.]
References
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Asclepiadoideae
Apocynaceae genera