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.

Zimbabwe: 8 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
doleriticum Goyder[NrEnd?]	E
gerrardii (Harv.) Liede subsp. gerrardii	N,W,S	Description, Image
mossambicense K. Schum.	N,S	Description, Image
orangeanum (Schltr.) N.E. Br.	?	Description
praecox S. Moore	N,C	Description, Image
schistoglossum Schltr.	W,?S	Description, Image
umtalense Liede	E	Description, Image
viminale (L.) L. subsp. suberosum (Meve & Liede) Goyder	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image

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