Kingdom Plantae Family Apocynaceae Rank Genus | Order Gentianales Subfamily Asclepiadoideae | |
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Pentasachme is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1834. It contains only one recognized species, Pentasachme caudatum, native to southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.
moved to other genera (Cynanchum, Heterostemma)
- P. brachyantha now Cynanchum stauntonii
- P. esquirolii now Heterostemma esquirolii
- P. glaucescens now Cynanchum glaucescens
- P. stauntonii now Cynanchum stauntonii
- Pentasachme fasciculatum (Buch.-Ham. ex Wight) M.R.Almeida - India
- Pentasachme pulcherrima Grierson & D.G. Long - Bhutan, Nepal
- Pentasachme shanense MacGregor & W. W. Smith - Myanmar
- Pentasachme wallichii Wight - Himalayas
References
Pentasachme Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA