Taxa named by Robert Wight

Vachellia is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae, commonly known as thorn trees or acacias. It belongs to the subfamily Mimosoideae. Its species were considered members of genus Acacia until 2009. Vachellia can be distinguished from other acacias by its capitate inflorescences and spinescent stipules. Before discovery of the New World, Europeans in the Mediterranean region were familiar with several species of Vachellia, which they knew as sources of medicine, and had names for them that they inherited from the Greeks and Romans.

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Millettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It consists of about 169 species of shrubs, lianas or trees, which are native to tropical and subtropical regions of sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Indochina, southern China, Malesia, and New Guinea. Typical habitats include tropical rain forest and seasonally-dry lowland and upland forest and forest margins, woodland, thicket, wooded grassland, and secondary vegetation.

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The scarlet gourds are a genus (Coccinia from the Greek, kokkinia or kokkinias - "red" or "scarlet") with 25 species. It is distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and with one species, C. grandis also in South Asia and Southeast Asia, and it is also introduced into the New World. Incidentally, C. grandis is also a cultivated crop and it is used for culinary and medical purposes.

thumb|left|Dichrostachys cinerea in flower

thumb|right|220px|Old fruit and seed of Gymnosporia tenuispina|G. tenuispina Gymnosporia is an Old World genus of plants, that comprise suffrutices, shrubs and trees. It was formerly considered congeneric with Maytenus, but more recent investigations separated it based on the presence of achyblasts (truncated branchlets) and spines, alternate leaves or fascicles of leaves, an inflorescence that forms a dichasium, mostly unisexual flowers, and fruit forming a dehiscent capsule, with an aril on the seed. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Blepharispermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. They are distributed in Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and Sri Lanka.

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Cullenia is a genus of flowering plants native to India and Sri Lanka. Earlier classification schemes placed the genus in the kapok-tree family (Bombacaceae), but the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group places it in the mallow family (Malvaceae).

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Pleurostylia is a small genus of shrubs in the family Celastraceae. It includes six species native to central and Southern Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, parts of tropical Asia, New Guinea, Queensland, and Vanuatu.

Dunbaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae. It includes 19 species which range from India to Indochina, China, Korea, Japan, Malesia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.

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species of flowering plant

Luvunga is an Asian genus of plants in the family Rutaceae: tribe Citreae. It is distributed from India to China, and through Southeast Asia to northern Australia.

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Lophopetalum is a genus of plants in the family Celastraceae. It includes 20 species native to tropical Asia, New Guinea, and northern Australia.

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Boucerosia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apocynaceae. Its native range is Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

Dalzellia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Podostemaceae.

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Sarcostigma is a genus of plants of the family Icacinaceae. It includes two species of climbers native to tropical Asia. The genus was described by Robert Wight and George A. Walker Arnott and published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal in the year 1833.

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Indotristicha ramosissima is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Podostemaceae. It is the sole species in genus Indotristicha.

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Pentasacme, sometimes spelled Pentasachme, is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family (Apocynaceae). It contains six species which range from the Himalayas through Indochina to southern China and Peninsular Malaysia. The genus was first described in 1834.

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species of plant

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