Oncinema

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Apocynaceae
Subfamilia: Asclepiadoideae
Tribus: Asclepiadeae
Subtribus: Astephaninae
Genus: Oncinema
Species: O. lineare
Name

Oncinema Arn., Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 261 (1834)

monotypic taxon

References

Arnott, G.A.W. 1834. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 17: 261.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2017. Oncinema in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2017 Sept. 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2017. Oncinema. Published online. Accessed: Sept. 2 2017.
Tropicos.org 2017. Oncinema. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2017 Sept. 2.

Oncinema is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1834.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Oncinema lineare , native to South Africa.[1][4]
References

The Plant List, genus Oncinema
Tropicos, genus Oncinema
Arnott, George Arnott Walker. 1834. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 17: 261 description in Latin, commentary in English.
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).