8351.000 Vangueria Comm. ex Juss.

ANCYLANTHOS Desf.

LAGYNIAS E. Mey. ex Robyns

PACHYSTIGMA Hochst.

TAPIPHYLLUM Robyns

Lantz, H. & Bremer, B. (2005) Phylogeny of the complex Vanguerieae (Rubiaceae) genera Fadogia, Rytigynia, and Vangueria with close relatives and a new circumscription of Vangueria Plant Systematics and Evolution 253 159-183

Description of the genus

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves in pairs. Stipules produced into a narrow appendage at the apex. Inflorescences consisting of axillary cymes on opposite sides of the nodes. Calyx with 5 short, triangular, linear or oblong lobes. Corolla usually yellow, green, or greenish-yellow, densely hairy at throat; lobes 5, usually reflexed, sometimes with distinct narrow appendage at apex. Ovary 5-locular; ovule solitary in each loculus, pendulous. Fruit indehiscent, fleshy, ± spherical, glabrous.

Worldwide: 58 species in Subsaharan Africa and Madagascar.

Rwanda: 1 taxon.

Insects associated with this genus:

Hypolycaena philippus (Purple-brown hairstreak) Larval foodplant

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
apiculata K. Schum.		Description, Image

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