Raphistemma was a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1831,[1][2] It is native to China and Southeast Asia.[3] but now synonymous and subsumed into the genus Cynanchum.[4]
Raphistemma | |
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Raphistemma pulchellum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Subfamily: | Asclepiadoideae |
Tribe: | Asclepiadeae |
Genus: | Raphistemma Wall. |
- Species[5]
References
edit- ^ Nathaniel Wallich, 1832, Plantae Asiaticae Rariores Vol. 2: 50-51, pl. 163 in Latin with commentary in English
- ^ Tropicos genus Raphistemma
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 226 大花藤属 da hua teng shu Raphistemma Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 50. 1831.
- ^ POWO: Raphistemma Wall.
- ^ The Plant List, genus Raphistemma