Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Vinceae is a member of the Subfamily Rauvolfioideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Vinceae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Asteridae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Gentiananae
Thorne Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order: Gentianales
Lindley, 1833
- Family: Apocynaceae
(a-pos-ih-NAY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- Subfamily: Rauvolfioideae
- Tribe: Vinceae
- Subfamily: Rauvolfioideae
- Family: Apocynaceae
(a-pos-ih-NAY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- Order: Gentianales
Lindley, 1833
- Superorder: Gentiananae
Thorne Ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass: Asteridae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Tribe Vinceae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (7): Amsonia · Catharanthus · Kopsia · Ochrosia · Petchia · Rauvolfia · Vinca
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 543 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Vinceae.
Genera
Amsonia
Amsonia is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It is named in honor of the American botanist . Members of the genus are commonly known as bluestars. [more]
Catharanthus
Catharanthus (Madagascar Periwinkle) is a genus of eight species of herbaceous perennial plants, seven endemic to the island of Madagascar, the eighth native to the Indian subcontinent in southern Asia . C. roseus goes by its common name "sadabahar" or "sadaphuli" (perennially flowering) in parts of Western India. [more]
Kopsia
Kopsia is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
Ochrosia
Ochrosia is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae. It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete): [more]
Petchia
Rauvolfia
Rauvolfia (also spelled Rauwolfia) is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. The genus is named to honor Leonhard Rauwolf. The approximately 85 species in the genus can mainly be found in tropical regions. Rauvolfia caffra is the South African quinine tree. [more]
Vinca
Vinca (; Latin: vincire "to bind, fetter") is a genus of six species in the family Apocynaceae, native to Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. The English name periwinkle is shared with the related genus Catharanthus (and also with the common seashore mollusc, Littorina littorea). In India the plant is known as sadaphuli meaning "always flowering". [more]
At least 152 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Vinca.
More info about the Genus Vinca may be found here.
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