''Ventilago'' is a

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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 ...

s in the family

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 species. The Rhamnaceae h ...

. It includes about 40

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found in the tropics of South and SE Asia,

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, with one species each in

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 ...

and

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. The roots of '' Ventilago neocaledonica'' are used in

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of no ...

to produce a crimson red dye (known in some local languages as ''labwa'' or ''labwe'' which is used to pattern traditional textiles.

Species

Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...

'' currently includes:Plants of the World Online: ''Ventilago'' Gaertn. (retrieved 19 March 2021)
/ref> * '' Ventilago africana'' Exell * '' Ventilago borneensis'' Ridl. * '' Ventilago brunnea'' Merr. * '' Ventilago buxoides'' Baill. * '' Ventilago calyculata'' Tul. * '' Ventilago crenata'' Cahen & Utteridge * '' Ventilago cristata'' Pierre * '' Ventilago denticulata'' Willd. * '' Ventilago dichotoma'' (Blanco) Merr. * '' Ventilago diffusa'' (G.Don) Exell * '' Ventilago ecorollata'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. * '' Ventilago elegans'' Hemsl. * '' Ventilago ferruginea'' Cahen & Utteridge * '' Ventilago flavovirens'' Cahen & Utteridge * '' Ventilago gamblei'' Suess. * '' Ventilago gladiata'' Pierre * '' Ventilago goughii'' Gamble * '' Ventilago harmandiana'' Pierre * '' Ventilago inaequilateralis'' Merr. & Chun * '' Ventilago kurzii'' Ridl. * '' Ventilago lanceolata'' Merr. * '' Ventilago laotica'' (Tardieu) J.F.Maxwell * '' Ventilago leiocarpa'' Benth. * '' Ventilago leptadenia'' Tul. * '' Ventilago lucens'' Miq. * '' Ventilago madraspatana'' Gaertn. * '' Ventilago maingayi'' M.A.Lawson * '' Ventilago malaccensis'' Ridl. * '' Ventilago microcarpa'' K.Schum. * '' Ventilago multinervia'' Merr. * '' Ventilago neocaledonica'' Schltr. * '' Ventilago nisidai'' Kaneh. * '' Ventilago palawanensis'' Elmer * '' Ventilago papuana'' Merr. & L.M.Perry * '' Ventilago pauciflora'' Pit. * '' Ventilago pseudocalyculata'' Guillaumin * '' Ventilago pubiflora'' W.D.Francis * ''

Ventilago viminalis ''Ventilago viminalis'', commonly known as supplejack, vine tree or whip vine, is a tree native to Northern and Central Australia from coastal regions of Queensland to the Northern Territory and Western Australia (with occurrences in New South ...

'' Hook. * '' Ventilago vitiensis'' A.Gray * '' Ventilago zhengdei'' G.S.Fan

References

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