Cordylostigma Explained

Cordylostigma is a genus in the Rubiaceae. The name was coined in 2010 to contain 9 species formerly belonging to the related genus Kohautia.^[1] The nine species are native to tropical and southern Africa from Guinea to Somalia to South Africa, as well as Madagascar, Comoros, and Réunion.^[2]

Species

• Cordylostigma amboense (Schinz) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma cicendioides (K.Schum.) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma cuspidatum (K.Schum.) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma longifolium (Klotzsch) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma microcala (Bremek.) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma obtusilobum (Hiern) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma prolixipes (S.Moore) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma stellarioides (Hiern) Groeninckx & Dessein
• Cordylostigma virgatum (Willd.) Groeninckx & Dessein

External links

• Cordylostigma in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Notes and References

1. Groeninckx I, Ochoterena H, Smets E, Dessein S . 2010. Molecular phylogenetic and morphological study of Kohautia (Spermacoceae, Rubiaceae), with the recognition of the new genus Cordylostigma. Taxon. 59. 5. 1457–1471. 10.1002/tax.595011.
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=462526 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Cordylostigma