Kohautia Explained
Kohautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical areas of Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.[1] [2] Thirty-one species are known.[2] The type species for the genus is Kohautia senegalensis.[3]
Kohautia was named by Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal in 1829.[4] This generic name honors Franz Kohaut (d. 1822), a plant collector who worked in West Africa for the botanist Franz Sieber (1789-1844).[5]
Species
The following species are accepted in the genus Kohautia:[6]
- Kohautia amatymbica
- Kohautia angolensis
- Kohautia aspera
- Kohautia australiensis
- Kohautia azurea
- Kohautia caespitosa
- Kohautia coccinea
- Kohautia confusa
- Kohautia cynanchica
- Kohautia dolichostyla
- Kohautia euryantha
- Kohautia gracilis
- Kohautia gracillima
- Kohautia grandiflora
- Kohautia huillensis
- Kohautia kimuenzae
- Kohautia microflora
- Kohautia nagporensis
- Kohautia pappii
- Kohautia platyphylla
- Kohautia pleiocaulis
- Kohautia quartiniana
- Kohautia ramosissima
- Kohautia retrorsa
- Kohautia socotrana
- Kohautia subverticillata
- Kohautia tenuis
External links
Notes and References
- David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK.
- Inge Groeninckx, Steven Dessein, Helga Ochoterena, Claes Persson, Timothy J. Motley, Jesper Kårehed, Birgitta Bremer, Suzy Huysmans, and Erik Smets. 2009. "Phylogeny of the herbaceous tribe Spermacoceae (Rubiaceae) based on plastid DNA data". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96(1):109-132.
- Kohautia In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
- Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal. 1829. Linnaea 4:157. (see External links below)
- Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume II. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, USA. London, UK. .
- Web site: Kohautia Cham. & Schltdl. Plants of the World Online Kew Science. 2021-11-17. Plants of the World Online. en.
