Belonophora
| Belonophora | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Ixoroideae |
| Tribe: | Coffeeae |
| Genus: | Belonophora Hook.f. |
| Type species | |
| Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola.[1] It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.[2]
Species
- Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.
- Belonophora coffeoides subsp. coffeoides - São Tomé (not seen since 1861, possibly extinct)
- Belonophora coffeoides subsp. hypoglauca (Welw. ex Hiern) S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Benin, Ghana, Guinée, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
- Belonophora coriacea Hoyle - Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo
- Belonophora ongensis S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Cameroon, Gabon
- Belonophora talbotii (Wernham) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
- Belonophora wernhamii Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria, Cameroon
References
- ↑ "Belonophora in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1873. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 12, t 1127 , Belonophora coffeoides
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