TABERNAEMONTANA L. [family APOCYNACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
TABERNAEMONTANA L. [family APOCYNACEAE], (1753)—Leeuwenberg, A revision of Tabernaemontana, 1. The Old World species (1991).
Conopharyngia G. Don [family APOCYNACEAE], (1837).
Information
Shrubs or trees, dichotomously branched, with (1–)2 inflorescences in the forks when flowering; latex white. Leaves opposite. Flowers sweetly scented. Corolla-lobes overlapping to the left and folded inwards in bud, twisted. Corona absent. Stamens mostly included; anthers subsessile. Ovary of 2 carpels ± united at the base and connected at the apex by the style. Fruit of 2 free or basally united subglobose to subellipsoid fleshy mericarps, dehiscent or not. Seeds enveloped by a pulpy aril.
Range
Genus of about 100 species, pantropical.
TABERNAEMONTANA L. [family APOCYNACEAE]
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