Leptactina

Leptactina
Leptactina mannii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Pavetteae[1]
Genus: Leptactina
Species

See text.

Leptactina is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are about 19 species.[3] They are all native to Africa, where most occur in rainforest habitat.[4]

Species include:[5]

  • Leptactina adolfi-friedericii
  • Leptactina angolensis
  • Leptactina benguelensis
  • Leptactina deblockiae
  • Leptactina delagoensis
  • Leptactina densiflora Hook.f.
  • Leptactina epinyctios
  • Leptactina euclinioides
  • Leptactina formosa
  • Leptactina gloeocalyx
  • Leptactina involucrata
  • Leptactina latifolia
  • Leptactina laurentiana
  • Leptactina leopoldi-secundi
  • Leptactina liebrechtsiana
  • Leptactina mannii
  • Leptactina oxyloba
  • Leptactina papyrophloea Verdc.
  • Leptactina platyphylla
  • Leptactina polyneura
  • Leptactina pretrophylax
  • Leptactina prostrata
  • Leptactina pynaertii
  • Leptactina rheophytica
  • Leptactina senegambica Hook.f.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Genus Leptactina". Taxonomy. UniProt. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
  2. ↑ "Genus: Leptactina Hook. f." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1996-09-17. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
  3. ↑ Neuba, D. F. R., Malan, D. F., & Kouadio, Y. L. (2014). Notes sur le genre Africain Leptactina Hook. f.(Rubiaceae, Pavetteae). Adansonia, 36(1), 121-153.
  4. ↑ Robbrecht, E., & De Block, P. (1999). The geofrutescent Leptactina Species (Rubiaceae, Pavetteae) of the'Flore d'Afrique Centrale'Area. Systematics and Geography of Plants, 125-133.
  5. ↑ Leptactina. The Plant List.
  6. ↑ "GRIN Species Records of Leptactina". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-01-27.


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