Catunaregam

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Gentianales

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Ixoroideae
Tribus: Gardenieae
Genus: Catunaregam
Species: C. longispina – C. nilotica – C. nutans – C. obovata – C. oocarpa – C. pentandra – C. pygmaea – C. spinosa  – C. stenocarpa – C. stipulosa – C. swynnertonii – C. taylorii – C. tomentosa – C. torulosa
Name

Catunaregam Wolf, 1776.

Typus: Catunaregam spinosa (Thunb.) Tirveng., vide D.D.Tirvengadum, Taxon 27: 514. 1979.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Ceriscus Gaertn., Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: t. 28 (1788)
Narega Raf., Sylva Tellur.: 98 (1838)
Xeromphis Raf., Sylva. Tell. 21. 1838.
Type species: Xeromphis retzii Raf., nom. illeg.
Bertuchia Dennst. ex Kostel., Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 5: 2002 (-2003). 1836.
Type species: Bertuchia speciosa Dennst. ex Kostel.
Lachnosiphonium Hochst., Flora 25(1): 236. 1842.
Type species: Lachnosiphonium obovatum Hochst.
Lepipogon G.Bertol., Mem. Acc. Sc. Bolog. 4: 539. t. 21. 1853.
Type species: Lepipogon obovatus G.Bertol.
Canthopsis Miq., Fl. Ned. Ind. 2: 256 (1857)

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
West Tropical Africa
Guinea, Nigeria.
West-Central Tropical Africa
Central African Republic, Cameroon, Zaïre.
Northeast Tropical Africa
Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan.
East Tropical Africa
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
South Tropical Africa
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Southern Africa
KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, Northern Provinces.
Asia-Temperate
China
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast.
Eastern Asia
Taiwan.
Asia-Tropical
Indian Subcontinent
Assam, Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Himalaya.
Indo-China
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.
Malesia
Jawa, Malaya, Sumatera (doubtful).

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References

Wolf 1776. Genera Plantarum 75.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Catunaregam in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 July 11. Reference page. 
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Catunaregam. Published online. Accessed: July 11 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Catunaregam. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 July 2019.

Catunaregam is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical Africa and tropical Southeast Asia.[1]
Species

Catunaregam longispina (Link) Tirveng. - India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam
Catunaregam nilotica (Stapf) Tirveng. - Guinea, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Catunaregam nutans (Roxb.) Tirveng. - India, Assam
Catunaregam obovata (Hochst.) A.E.Gonç. - Mozambique, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini
Catunaregam oocarpa (Ridl.) Tirveng. - Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra
Catunaregam pentandra (Gürke) Bridson - Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Catunaregam pygmaea Vollesen - Tanzania
Catunaregam spinosa (Thunb.) Tirveng. - China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Java, Malaysia
Catunaregam stenocarpa Bridson - Mozambique
Catunaregam swynnertonii (S.Moore) Bridson - Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Catunaregam taylorii (S.Moore) Bridson - D.R.Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Transvaal
Catunaregam tomentosa (Blume ex DC.) Tirveng.

References

"Catunaregam in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved 1 June 2014.