Urobotrya

Urobotrya is a genus of plants in the family Opiliaceae described as a genus in 1905.[2][3][4]

Urobotrya
Urobotrya congolana subsp. afzelii[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Santalales
Family: Opiliaceae
Genus: Urobotrya
Stapf

Urobotrya is native to Africa and Southeast Asia.[5]

Species[5]
  1. Urobotrya congolana (Baill.) Hiepko - W + C Africa
  2. Urobotrya floresensis Hiepko - Flores
  3. Urobotrya latisquama (Gagnep.) Hiepko - Guangxi, Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  4. Urobotrya longipes (Gagnep.) Hiepko - Vietnam
  5. Urobotrya parviflora Hiepko - Borneo
  6. Urobotrya siamensis Hiepko - Indochina
  7. Urobotrya sparsiflora (Engl.) Hiepko - Central African Rep., West Congo, East Congo, Angola

References
  1. 1906 illustration by Miss Matilda Smith from book "Liberia" by Sir Harry Johnston, with an appendix on the flora of Liberia by Dr. Otto Stapf; plant called Urobotrya angustifolia at the time, now called Urobotrya congolana subsp. afzelii per Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=469798
  2. Stapf, Otto. 1905. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 37: 89-90 descriptions in Latin, commentary and geographic information in English
  3. Tropicos, Urobotrya Stapf
  4. Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 206 尾球木属 wei qiu mu shu Urobotrya Stapf, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 37: 89. 1905.
  5. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Urobotrya


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