6834.000 Cynanchum
SARCOSTEMMA R. Br.
Liede, S. (1996) A revision of Cynanchum in Africa Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83 283-345
Liede, S. & Täuber, A. (2002) Circumscription of the Genus Cynanchum (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) Systematic Botany 27(4) 789-800
Description of the genus
Perennial herbs, sometimes leafless; latex usually white. Leaves simple, opposite. Corolla fused basally. Gynostegial corona in one or two whorls. Follicles generally single. Seeds flattened, sometimes winged, with a tuft of white hairs. Worldwide: 259 species almost cosmopolitan. Mozambique: 8 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| ellipticum (Harv.) R.A. Dyer | GI,M | Description, Image |
| gerrardii (Harv.) Liede subsp. gerrardii | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| mossambicense K. Schum. | Z,MS,GI | Description, Image |
| mulanjense (Liede & Meve) Liede & Meve [NrEnd] | N,Z | |
| obtusifolium L.f. | M | Description |
| oresbium (Bruyns) Goyder [End] | N | |
| schistoglossum Schltr. | MS (other?) | Description, Image |
| viminale (L.) L. subsp. suberosum (Meve & Liede) Goyder | Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
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