Sherbournia

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: Sherbournieae
Genus: Sherbournia
Species: S. ailarama – S. amaraliocarpa – S. batesii – S. bignoniiflora – S. buccularia – S. calycina – S. curvipes – S. hapalophylla – S. kiliotricha – S. millenii – S. myosura – S. streptocaulon – S. zenkeri
Name

Sherbournia G.Don, Encycl. Pl., new ed., Suppl. 2: 1303. (1855)

Typus: S. foliosa G.Don = S. calycina
(G.Don) Hua, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 14: 398 (1901)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Amaralia Welw. ex Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. (Bentham & J.D.Hooker) 2(1): 90. 1873.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Africa
West Tropical Africa
Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierre Leone, Togo.
West-Central Tropical Africa
Cabinda, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaïre.
Northeast Tropical Africa
Sudan.
East Tropical Africa
Uganda.
South Tropical Africa
Angola, Zambia.

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

Don, G. 1855. Encycl. Pl. Suppl. (Loudon) 2: 1323.
African Plants Database (version 3.4.0). Sherbournia. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 18.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Sherbournia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Sherbournia. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 18 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Sherbournia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 18 {{{3}}}.

Sherbournia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises 13 currently recognized species.[1] It was named after British botanist Margaret Sherbourne. (1791-1846)
References

"Sherbournia". The Plant List. Retrieved 20 May 2014.