Afrocanthium

Also known as Rock alders

Afrocanthium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of deciduous, unarmed trees, and shrubs. They are native to East Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia to South Africa.

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GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderGentianales
FamilyRubiaceae

Native toAngola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, DR Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces

Observations recorded2,556

Afrocanthium is een geslacht uit de sterbladigenfamilie (Rubiaceae). De soorten komen voor in Oost-Afrika, van Soedan en Ethiopië in het noorden tot Zuid-Afrika in het zuiden. Soorten Afrocanthium burttii (Bullock) Lantz Afrocanthium gilfillanii (N.E.Br.) Lantz Afrocanthium keniense (Bullock) Lantz Afrocanthium kilifiense (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium lactescens (Hiern) Lantz Afrocanthium mundianum (Cham. & Schltdl.) Lantz Afrocanthium ngonii (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium parasiebenlistii (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium peteri (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium pseudorandii (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium pseudoverticillatum (S.Moore) Lantz Afrocanthium racemulosum (S.Moore) Lantz Afrocanthium rondoense (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium salubenii (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium shabanii (Bridson) Lantz Afrocanthium siebenlistii (K.Krause) Lantz Afrocanthium vollesenii (Bridson) Lantz

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 16
With media: 27
Family: Rubiaceae
Collections: MO, MNHN, UPS
Recorded in: Tanzania, Gabon

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Afrocanthium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It consists of deciduous, unarmed trees, and shrubs. They are native to East Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia to South Africa.

==Taxonomy== Afrocanthium was first recognized as a distinct group in 1991, when it was named as a subgenus of Canthium. It was described and compared to the other subgenera in 1992. In 2004, a molecular phylogenetic study of DNA sequences showed that Afrocanthium is monophyletic and not most closely related to the other subgenera of Canthium. The authors of this study raised Afrocanthium, unaltered, to generic status. It is sister to Keetia, a genus that was segregated from Canthium in 1986.

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