Leptactina

Leptactina is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. There are about 19 species.[2] They are all native to Africa, where most occur in rainforest habitat.[3]

Leptactina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
Subfamily: Ixoroideae
Tribe: Pavetteae
Genus: Leptactina
Hook.f.[1]
Species

See text.

Species include:[4]

  • Leptactina adolfi-friedericii
  • Leptactina angolensis
  • Leptactina benguelensis
  • Leptactina deblockiae
  • Leptactina delagoensis
  • Leptactina densiflora Hook.f.
  • Leptactina epinyctios
  • Leptactina euclinioides
  • Leptactina formosa
  • Leptactina gloeocalyx
  • Leptactina involucrata
  • Leptactina latifolia
  • Leptactina laurentiana
  • Leptactina leopoldi-secundi
  • Leptactina liebrechtsiana
  • Leptactina mannii
  • Leptactina oxyloba
  • Leptactina papyrophloea Verdc.
  • Leptactina platyphylla
  • Leptactina polyneura
  • Leptactina pretrophylax
  • Leptactina prostrata
  • Leptactina pynaertii
  • Leptactina rheophytica
  • Leptactina senegambica Hook.f.[5]

References
  1. "Genus: Leptactina Hook. f." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1996-09-17. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
  2. Neuba, Danho Fursy Rodelec; Malan, Djah François; Kouadio, Yao Lambert (2014). "Notes sur le genre AfricainLeptactina Hook.f. (Rubiaceae, Pavetteae)". Adansonia. 36: 121–153. doi:10.5252/a2014n1a11. S2CID 86277793.
  3. Robbrecht, E., & De Block, P. (1999). The geofrutescent Leptactina Species (Rubiaceae, Pavetteae) of the'Flore d'Afrique Centrale'Area. Systematics and Geography of Plants, 125-133.
  4. Leptactina. The Plant List.
  5. "GRIN Species Records of Leptactina". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-01-27.


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