Rhyssolobium

Rhyssolobium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Rhyssolobium
E.Mey.
Binomial name
Rhyssolobium dumosum
E.Mey.
Synonyms[1]

Astephanus dumosus (E.Mey.) D.Dietr.

Rhyssolobium is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae , first described as a genus in 1838.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Rhyssolobium dumosum, endemic to South Africa.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Tropicos, genus Rhyssolobium
  2. ↑ Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 217. in Latin
  3. ↑ Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).


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