Apocynoideae | |
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Apocynum venetum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Subfamily: | Apocynoideae Burnett[1] |
Tribes[2] | |
Apocyneae |
Apocynoideae is a subfamily of the flowering plant family Apocynaceae (order Gentianales). It contains about 78 genera with roughly 860 species. Several genera are of pharmacological interest - notably those - such as Strophanthus - which have furnished highly effective arrow poisons, due to their cardiac glycoside content.[3] The subfamily includes many species with flowers of considerable ornamental value, the best-known of which is Nerium oleander, the familiar Oleander. It also contains the remarkable pachycaul genera Adenium and Pachypodium.
Genera
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Gallery
- Alafia caudata subsp. latiloba
- Chonemorpha fragrans side view of flowers
- Cycladenia humilis var. jonesii
- Echites panduratus (harvested, edible, hairy flowers)
- Funtumia elastica, former rubber source
- Holarrhena pubescens (detail)
- Kibatalia blancoi
- Mascarenhasia arborescens, former rubber source
- Mesechites trifida
- Pachypodium lamerei, a pachycaul species
- Pachypodium lamerei, close-up
- Parsonsia diaphanophleba, single flower
- Prestonia coalita
- Rhabdadenia madida
- Stephanostema stenocarpa (flowers v. small relative to foliage)
- Temnadenia odorifera
- Urceola elastica
- Vallaris glabra
References
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- ↑ Reveal, J.L. (2012). "Newly required infrafamilial names mandated by changes in the Code of Nomenclature For Algae, Fungi, and Plants". Phytoneuron. 33: 1–32. ISSN 2153-733X.
- ↑ "Family: Apocynaceae Juss., nom. cons. subfam. Apocynoideae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-04-12. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 1041–1042.
- ↑ "GRIN Genera of Apocynaceae tribe Apocyneae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ↑ "GRIN Genera of Apocynaceae tribe Echiteae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ↑ "GRIN Genera of Apocynaceae tribe Malouetieae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ↑ "GRIN Genera of Apocynaceae tribe Mesechiteae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
- ↑ "GRIN Genera of Apocynaceae tribe Wrightieae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-11-26.
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