| Kohautia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
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| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
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| Family: | |
| Subfamily: | Rubioideae |
| Tribe: | Spermacoceae |
| Genus: | Kohautia Chamisso & Schlechtendal |
| Type species | |
| Kohautia senegalensis Chamisso & Schlechtendal | |
| Species | |
| 31 species (see text) | |
Kohautia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to tropical areas of Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.[1][2] Thirty-one species are known.[2] The type species for the genus is Kohautia senegalensis.[3]
Kohautia was named by Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal in 1829.[4] This generic name honors Franz Kohaut (d. 1822), a plant collector who worked in West Africa for the botanist Franz Sieber (1789-1844).[5]
Kohautia is diphyletic, consisting of two clades that are not sister taxa. The clade that contains the type species is related to Pentanopsis. The other clade consists of one of the sections of Kohautia. It is still in one family with Oldenlandia and will be renamed as a new genus.[6]
Species
- Kohautia socotrana Bremekamp
- Kohautia senegalensis Chamisso & Schlechtendal
References
- ^ David J. Mabberley. 2008. Mabberley's Plant-Book third edition (2008). Cambridge University Press: UK. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
- ^ a b Inge Groeninckx, Steven Dessein, Helga Ochoterena, Claes Persson, Timothy J. Motley, Jesper Kårehed, Birgitta Bremer, Suzy Huysmans, and Erik Smets. 2009. "Phylogeny of the herbaceous tribe Spermacoceae (Rubiaceae) based on plastid DNA data". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96(1):109-132.
- ^ Kohautia In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see External links below).
- ^ Adelbert von Chamisso and Diederich von Schlechtendal. 1829. Linnaea 4:157. (see External links below)
- ^ Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names volume II. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington,DC;, USA. London, UK. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.
- ^ Jesper Kårehed, Inge Groeninckx, Steven Dessein, Timothy J. Motley, and Birgitta Bremer. 2008. "The phylogenetic utility of chloroplast and nuclear DNA markers and the phylogeny of the Rubiaceae tribe Spermacoceae". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49(3):843-866. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.025
External links
- Kohautia At: Search Page At: World Checklist of Rubiaceae At: Index by Team At: Projects At: Science Directory At: Scientific Research and Data At: Kew Gardens
- Kohautia At:Index Nominum Genericorum At: References At: NMNH Department of Botany
- Kohautia In: Linnaea, volume 4 At: Linnaea At: Titles At: Botanicus