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 Edit this 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
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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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