Plocama
Plocama is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by William Aiton in 1789. It is distributed from the Canary Islands to northwestern India.[1]
Plocama | |
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Plocama calabrica | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Rubiaceae |
Subfamily: | Rubioideae |
Tribe: | Putorieae |
Genus: | Plocama Aiton |
Type species | |
Plocama pendula | |
Synonyms | |
The genus was expanded in 2007 when several other Rubiaceae genera were merged into it. There are now about 34 species.[2]
Plants of this genus are herbs or shrubs. They generally have an offensive scent when crushed. The leaves are oppositely arranged. The corolla is funnel shaped with a short to long tubular base. The fruit is either a drupe or a body that splits into two parts when ripe.[2]
Species
- Plocama afghanica (Ehrend.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama asperuliformis (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama aucheri (Guill.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama botschantzevii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama brevifolia (Coss. & Durieu ex Pomel) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama bruguieri (A.Rich. ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama bucharica (B.Fedtsch. & Des.-Shost.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calabrica (L.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calcicola (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama calycoptera (Decne.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama corcyllis (Sond.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama crucianelloides (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama dubia (Aitch. & Hemsl.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama eriantha (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama hymenostephana (Jaub. & Spach) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama iljinii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama inopinata (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama jolana (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama kandaharensis (Ehrend. & Qarar ex (Ehrend. & Schönb.-Tem.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama macrantha (Blatt. & Hallb.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama mestscherjakovii (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama olivieri (A.Rich. ex DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama pendula Aiton
- Plocama puberula (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama putorioides (Radcl.-Sm.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama reboudiana (Coss. & Durieu) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama rosea (Hemsl. ex Aitch.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama somaliensis (Puff) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama szowitzii (DC.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama thymoides (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama tinctoria (Balf.f.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama trichophylla (Popov) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama vassilczenkoi (Lincz.) M.Backlund & Thulin
- Plocama yemenensis (Thulin) M.Backlund & Thulin
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References
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- "World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- Backlund, M., Bremer, B., & Thulin, M. (2007). Paraphyly of Paederieae, recognition of Putorieae and expansion of Plocama (Rubiaceae-Rubioideae). Taxon, 56(2), 315-328.
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