Vahadenia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Rauvolfioideae
Tribus: Willughbeieae
Subtribus: Landolphiinae
Genus: Vahadenia
Species: V. caillei – V. laurentii
Name

Vahadenia Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 4(1): 29 (1902)

Type species: Vahadenia laurentii (De Wild.) Stapf in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 4(1): 30 (1902)

References

Stapf, O. 1902. Flora of Tropical Africa. London 4(1): 29.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Vahadenia in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2015 Nov. 1. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Vahadenia. Published online. Accessed: Nov. 1 2015. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2015. Vahadenia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 1 Nov. 2015. Reference page.

Vahadenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1902. It is native to tropical Africa.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species[1]

Vahadenia caillei (A.Chev.) Stapf ex Hutch. & Dalziel - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone
Vahadenia laurentii (De Wild.) Stapf - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Zaire, Angola

References

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Harris, D.J. (2002). The vascular plants of the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve, Central African Republic: 1-274. National Botanic Garden (Belgium), Meise.
Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
Lejoy, J., Ndjele, M.-B. & Geerinck, D. (2010). Catalogue-flore des plantes vasculaires des districts de Kisangani et de la Tshopo (RD Congo). Taxonomania. Revue de Taxonomie et de Nomenclature Botaniques 30: 1-307.