6834.000 Cynanchum L.

SARCOSTEMMA R. Br.

Liede, S. (1996) A revision of Cynanchum in Africa Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83 283-345

Liede, S. & Täuber, A. (2002) Circumscription of the Genus Cynanchum (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae) Systematic Botany 27(4) 789-800

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs, sometimes leafless; latex usually white. Leaves simple, opposite. Corolla fused basally. Gynostegial corona in one or two whorls. Follicles generally single. Seeds flattened, sometimes winged, with a tuft of white hairs.

Worldwide: 259 species almost cosmopolitan.

DRC: 6 taxa.

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Species	Botanical divisions	Content
abyssinicum Decne.
adalinae (K.Schum.) K.Schum. subsp. adalinae	VI
longipes N.E.Br.
polyanthum K.Schum.
praecox S. Moore		Description, Image
viminale (L.) L. subsp. suberosum (Meve & Liede) Goyder		Description, Image

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Flora of Mozambique: Cynanchum
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Flora of Uganda: Cynanchum
Flora of Zambia: Cynanchum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cynanchum

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cynanchum
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