Sabicea Explained

Sabicea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are known commonly as the woodvines.^[1] The type species is Sabicea cinerea. There are about 145 species. Most are distributed in tropical Africa and South America.^[2]

Species include:

• Sabicea batesii
• Sabicea cinerea Aubl.  - largeflower woodvine
• Sabicea medusula
• Sabicea pedicellata
• Sabicea pyramidalis L. Andersson
• Sabicea stenantha K.Krause
• Sabicea villosa Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.  - woolly woodvine
• Sabicea xanthotricha Wernham

Further reading

• Delprete. Piero Giusepp e. Cortés-B. Rocio. Asynopsis of the rubiaceae of the states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with a key to genera, and a preliminary species list. Instituto de Ciências Biológicas - (ICB). Revista de Biologia Neotropical. Vera Lúcia Gomes Klein. January–June 2006. 3. 1. 13–96. 10.5216/rbn.v3i1.2813. 1807-9652. free.

Notes and References

1. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SABIC Sabicea.
2. Zemagho, L., Lachenaud, O., Dessein, S., Liede-Schumann, S., & Sonké, B. (2014). Two new Sabicea (Rubiaceae) species from West Central Africa: Sabicea bullata and Sabicea urniformis. Phytotaxa, 173(4), 285-292.