Buckollia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Orthokaryota
Cladus: Neokaryota
Cladus: Photokaryota
Cladus: Diaphoretickes
Cladus: CAM
Regnum*: Archaeplastida
Regnum: Plantae
Regnum*: Viridiplantae
Cladus: Streptophyta
Cladus: Phragmoplastophyta
Cladus: Embryophyta
Cladus: Polysporangiophyta
Divisio*: Tracheophyta
Cladus: Eutracheophyta
Cladus: Euphyllophytina
Cladus: Megaphylla
Cladus: Radiatopses
Cladus: Lignophyta
Cladus: Metalignophyta
Diviso*: Spermatophyta
Classis*: Angiospermae
Cladus: Mesangiospermae
Cladus: Eudicota
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Periplocoideae
Genus: Buckollia
Species: B. tomentosa – B. volubilis
Name

Buckollia Venter & R.L.Verh., S. African J. Bot. 60: 97 (1994)

Type species: Buckollia volubilis (Schltr.) Venter & R.L.Verh., S. African J. Bot. 60: 97 (1994)

References

Venter, H.J.T. & Verhoeven, R.L. 1994. South African Journal of Botany 60(2): 97.
African Plants Database (version 3.4.0). Buckollia. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Accessed: 2017 Sept. 27.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2017. Buckollia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2017 Sept. 27. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Buckollia. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 27 2017. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2017. Buckollia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Sept. 2017. Reference page.

Buckollia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae, first described in 1994.[1] It is native to eastern Africa.[2]
Etymology

Buckollia is a taxonomic anagram derived from the name of the genus Bullockia. The latter name is a taxonomic patronym honoring the English botanist Arthur Allman Bullock.[3]
Systematics

According to The Plant List, there are two species in this genus.[4]

Buckollia tomentosa (E.A.Bruce) Venter & R.L.Verh. - Uganda
Buckollia volubilis (Schltr.) Venter & R.L.Verh. - Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania

References

Venter, Hendrik Johannes Tjaart & Verhoeven, Rudolf L. 1994. South African Journal of Botany 60(2): 97.
Tropicos genus Buckollia
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. A13. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901.
The Plant List, genus Buckollia