Pectinaria (plant)

Pectinaria is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819.[1][2] The entire genus is endemic to South Africa.[3]

Species[4]
  1. Pectinaria arcuata N.E.Br. - South Africa
  2. Pectinaria articulata (Aiton) Haw. - South Africa
  3. Pectinaria asperiflora N.E.Br. - South Africa
  4. Pectinaria breviloba R.A.Dyer - Cape Province
  5. Pectinaria longipes (N.E.Br.) Bruyns - Cape Province
  6. Pectinaria maughanii (R.A.Dyer) Bruyns - Cape Province
  7. Pectinaria pillansii N.E.Br. - Cape Province
  8. Pectinaria saxatilis N.E.Br. - South Africa
  9. Pectinaria stayneri M.Bayer - Cape Province
  10. Pectinaria tulipiflora C.A.Lückh. - Cape Province
formerly included[4]
  1. Pectinaria exasperata now Stapeliopsis exasperata
Not to be confused with Pectinaria Cordem. nom. illeg., a synonym of Angraecum, orchids, Pectinaria (Benth.) Hack. nom. illeg., a synonym of Eremochloa Buse, grasses, or Pectinaria Bernh. nom. illeg., a synonym of Scandix, in the parsley family.

Pectinaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Ceropegieae
Genus: Pectinaria
Haw. 1819

References
  1. Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1819. Supplementum plantarum succulentarum :sistens plantas novas vel nuper introductas, sive omissas, in Synopse plantarum succulentarum : cum observationibus variis anglicanis 14 in Latin
  2. Tropicos genus Pectinaria
  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).
  4. The Plant List, genus Pectinaria


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