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Belonophora

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Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderGentianales
  5. FamilyRubiaceae
Native toAngola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
94
With media
90
Family
Rubiaceae
Collections
NY, MO, A
Recorded in
Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Liberia, Central African Republic, Congo (Kinshasa)

Wikidata facts

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taxon
Parent taxon
Rubiaceae
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Commons category
Belonophora
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Category:Belonophora
taxon name
Belonophora
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Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola. It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.

==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, Côte 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

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