Cordylogyne

Cordylogyne
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Apocynaceae
Subfamily:	Asclepiadoideae
Genus:	Cordylogyne; E.Mey.
Binomial name
	Cordylogyne globosa; E.Mey.
Type species
	Cordylogyne globosa; E.Mey.

Cordylogyne is a species of plants in the Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1838.^[1] It contains only one accepted species, Cordylogyne globosa, native to South Africa. Three other names have been proposed in the genus, also native to southern Africa, but at present they are listed as "unresolved," i.e., of uncertain affiliation.^[2]^[3]^[4]

Species of unresolved status^[2]

Cordylogyne argillicola Dinter - Namibia
Cordylogyne kassnerianum (Schltr.) Eyles - South Africa
Cordylogyne mossambicense (Schltr.) Eyles - Mozambique

References

^ Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 218 in Latin
^ ^a ^b The Plant List, genus Cordylogyne
^ Tropicos, genus Cordylogyne
^ Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).

[1] Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 218 in Latin

[e-2] The Plant List, genus Cordylogyne

[3] Tropicos, genus Cordylogyne

[4] Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).

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