Pentasachme

Pentasachme
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Pentasachme
Wall. ex Wight
Binomial name
Pentasachme caudatum
Wall. ex Wight
Synonyms[1]

Pentasachme is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1834.[2][3] It contains only one recognized species, Pentasachme caudatum, native to southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, and Southeast Asia.[4]

formerly included[1]

moved to other genera (Cynanchum, Heterostemma)

  1. P. brachyantha now Cynanchum stauntonii
  2. P. esquirolii now Heterostemma esquirolii
  3. P. glaucescens now Cynanchum glaucescens
  4. P. stauntonii now Cynanchum stauntonii
species of uncertain affinities[1]
  1. Pentasachme fasciculatum (Buch.-Ham. ex Wight) M.R.Almeida - India
  2. Pentasachme pulcherrima Grierson & D.G. Long - Bhutan, Nepal
  3. Pentasachme shanense MacGregor & W. W. Smith - Myanmar
  4. Pentasachme wallichii Wight - Himalayas

References

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