Cleghornia

Cleghornia
C. acuminata[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Genus: Cleghornia
Synonyms[3]

Cleghornia is a genus of plants in the dogbane family; its various species are distributed in Borneo, China, Laos, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.[4]

The genus name was chosen in dedication to Dr. Hugh Cleghorn,[5] the "father of scientific forestry in India".[6]

Species[4]
  • C. acuminata Wight - Sri Lanka
  • C. malaccensis (Hook.f.) King & Gamble - Guizhou, Yunnan, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, W Malaysia
formerly included
  • C. borneensis King & Gamble = Anodendron borneense (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton
  • C. chinensis (Merr.) P.T.Li = Sindechites chinensis (Merr.) Markgr. & Tsiang
  • C. cymosa Wight = Cleghornia acuminata Wight
  • C. dongnaiensis Pierre ex Pit. = Cleghornia malaccensis (Hook.f.) King & Gamble
  • C. gracilis King & Gamble = Anodendron gracile (King & Gamble) D.J.Middleton
  • C. henryi (Oliv.) P.T.Li = Sindechites henryi Oliv.

References

  1. ↑ illustration by Govindoo, published in Wight, R., Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis, vol. 4(2): t. 1310 (1846)
  2. ↑  Two species were published at the same time in 1848 under the then newly coined name of Cleghornia in Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis 4(2): 5. 1848.; C. acuminata and C. cymosa "Name - Cleghornia Wight". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". Retrieved May 21, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. ↑ (conducted by) P.J.Selby, Esq., F.L.S.; George Johnston, M.D.; Charles C. Babington, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.; J.H.Balfour, M.D., Prof. Bot. Edinburgh; and Richard Taylor, F.L.S., F.G.S. (1850). "Proceedings of the Royal Society ; Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of Edinburgh" (PDF). Annals and Magazine of Natural History. London: R. and J.E.Taylor. VI (2nd Series): 142. Retrieved July 13, 2011. ...Cleghornia, a new genus of Apocynaceæ, named by Dr. Wight, in honour of Dr. Hugh Cleghorn
  6. ↑ Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1899). "The Hill Forests of Western India". Journal of the Society of Arts. Covent Garden, London: George Bell and Sons. 47: 735. Retrieved July 13, 2011.


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