Emicocarpus

Emicocarpus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Emicocarpus
K.Schum. & Schltr.
Binomial name
Emicocarpus fissifolius
K.Schum. & Schltr.

Emicocarpus is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1900.[1][2] It contains only one known species, Emicocarpus fissifolius, native to tropical Africa.[3]

References

  1. Schumann, Karl Moritz & Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1900. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 29. (Beibl. 66): 21.
  2. Tropicos, Emicocarpus
  3. The International Plant Names Index
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