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Pleiocarpa

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Apocynaceae

Order
  
Gentianales

Pleiocarpa

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Pleiocarpa is a genus of plant in the Apocynaceae family first described as a genus in 1876. It is native to tropical Africa from Senegal to Tanzania and south to Zimbabwe. As of August 2013 the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families recognises 6 species:

Species
  1. Pleiocarpa bicarpellata Stapf - Cabinda, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Zaire, Kenya
  2. Pleiocarpa brevistyla Omino - Gabon
  3. Pleiocarpa mutica Benth. - Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo
  4. Pleiocarpa picralimoides (Pichon) Omino - Cabinda, Republic of Congo, Gabon
  5. Pleiocarpa pycnantha (K.Schum) Stapf - widespread across most of tropical Africa
  6. Pleiocarpa rostrata Benth. - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
formerly included in genus
  1. Pleiocarpa camerunensis (K.Schum. ex Hallier f.) Stapf = Hunteria camerunensis K.Schum. ex Hallier f.
  2. Pleiocarpa hockii De Wild. - Acokanthera oppositifolia (Lam.) Codd
  3. Pleiocarpa simii (Stapf) Stapf ex Hutch. & Dalziel = Hunteria simii (Stapf) H.Huber

References

Pleiocarpa Wikipedia