Empogona

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: Coffeeae
Genus: Empogona
Species: E. acidophylla – E. aequatoria – E. africana – E. aulacosperma – E. bequaertii – E. bracteata – E. breteleri – E. buxifolia – E. cacondensis – E. concolor – E. coriacea – E. crepiniana – E. deightonii – E. discolor – E. filiformistipulata – E. glabra – E. gossweileri – E. jenniferae – E. kirkii – E. lanceolata – E. macrophylla – E. maputensis – E. ngalaensis – E. nogueirae – E. ovalifolia – E. reflexa – E. somaliensis – E. talboltii – E. welwitschii
Name

Empogona Hook.f., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 11: t. 1091 (1871)
Type species: Empogona kirkii Hook.f., Hooker's Icon. Pl. 11: t. 1091 (1871)

References

Hooker, J.D. .1871. Hooker's Icones Plantarum, 11: 1091. BHL
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Empogona in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 25. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2015. Empogona. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Jan. 18.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Empogona. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 18 2015.
Tosh, J., Davis, A.P., Dessein, S., De Block, P., Huysmans, S., Fay, M.F., Smets, E. & Robbrecht, E., 2009. Phylogeny of Tricalysia (Rubiaceae) and its relationships with allied genera based on plastid DNA data: Resurrection of the genus Empogona. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 96(1): 194-213. JSTOR PDF Reference page.

Empogona is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. The genus is found in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar.[1][2] It was for a time deemed a subgenus of Tricalysia.[3]
Species

• Empogona acidophylla (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona aequatoria (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona africana (Sim) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona aulacosperma (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona bequaertii (De Wild.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona bracteata (Hiern) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona breteleri (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona buxifolia (Hiern) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona buxifolia subsp. australis (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona buxifolia subsp. buxifolia
• Empogona cacondensis (Hiern) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona concolor (N.Hallé) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona coriacea (Sond.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona crepiniana (De Wild. & T.Durand) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona deightonii (Brenan) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona discolor (Brenan) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona filiformistipulata (De Wild.) Bremek.
  • Empogona filiformistipulata subsp. epipsila (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona filiformistipulata subsp. filiformistipulata
• Empogona glabra (K.Schum.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona gossweileri (S.Moore) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona kirkii Hook.f.
  • Empogona kirkii subsp. junodii (Schinz) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona kirkii subsp. kirkii
• Empogona lanceolata (Sond.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona macrophylla (K.Schum.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona maputensis (Bridson & A.E.van Wyk) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona ngalaensis (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona nogueirae (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona ovalifolia (Hiern) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona ovalifolia var. glabrata (Oliv.) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona ovalifolia var. ovalifolia
  • Empogona ovalifolia var. taylorii (S.Moore) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona reflexa (Hutch.) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona reflexa var. ivorensis (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
  • Empogona reflexa var. reflexa
• Empogona somaliensis (Robbr.) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona talbotii (Wernham) Tosh & Robbr.
• Empogona welwitschii (K.Schum.) Tosh & Robbr.

References

"Empogona in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae". Retrieved June 2014. "Empogona in Tropicos". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
Tosh J, Davis AP, Dessein S, De Block P, Huysmans S, Fay MF, Smets E, Robbrecht E (2009). "Phylogeny of Tricalysia (Rubiaceae) and its relationships with allied genera based on plastid DNA data: resurrection of the genus Empogona". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 96 (1): 194–213. doi:10.3417/2006202. S2CID 86826332.