Keetia Explained

Keetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of climbers or scrambling shrubs, rarely small trees.

Distribution

The genus has a wide distribution area and occurs in tropical and southern Africa.

Taxonomy

It was originally described by Edwin Percy Phillips in 1926^[1] and is named after J.D.M Keet, a South African forester and plant collector.^[2] The type species was Keetia transvaalensis, which received its name from the region it was first collected, but is now included in Keetia gueinzii.^[3]

Species

• Keetia abouabou Cheek
• Keetia acuminata Bridson
• Keetia angustifolia Bridson
• Keetia bakossiorum Cheek
• Keetia bridsoniae Jongkind
• Keetia carmichaelii Bridson
• Keetia cornelia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bridson
• Keetia ferruginea Bridson
• Keetia foetida Bridson
• Keetia futa Cheek
• Keetia gracilis Bridson
• Keetia gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson
• Keetia hispida (Benth.)Bridson
• Keetia inaequilatera (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
• Keetia koritschoneri Bridson
• Keetia leucantha (K.Krause) Bridson
• Keetia lukei Bridson
• Keetia lulandensis Bridson
• Keetia mannii (Hiern) Bridson
• Keetia molundensis (K.Krause) Bridson
• Keetia multiflora (Schumach. & Thonn.) Bridson
• Keetia namoyae O.Lachenaud & Q.Luke
• Keetia obovata Jongkind
• Keetia ornata Bridson
• Keetia procteri Bridson
• Keetia purpurascens (Bullock) Bridson
• Keetia purseglovei Bridson
• Keetia ripae (De Wild.) Bridson
• Keetia rubens (Hiern) Bridson
• Keetia rufivillosa (Robyns ex Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
• Keetia rwandensis Bridson
• Keetia susu Cheek
• Keetia tenuiflora (Welw. ex Hiern) Bridson
• Keetia venosa (Oliv.) Bridson
• Keetia venosissima (Hutch. & Dalziel) Bridson
• Keetia zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Bridson

External links

• World Checklist of Rubiaceae

Notes and References

1. Phillips EP. 1926 "The genera of South African flowering plants, Edition 2." Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 10.
2. Book: Gunn M, Codd LE. 1981. Botanical exploration of southern Africa. Balkema. Cape Town.
3. Tilney PM, Van Wyk AE. 2009. Taxonomy of the genus Keetia (Rubiaceae-subfam. Ixoroideae-tribe Vanguerieae) in southern Africa, with notes on bacterial symbiosis as well as the structure of colleters and the stylar head complex. Bothalia. 39. 2. 165–175. 10.4102/abc.v39i2.242. 2263/13491. free.