Overview
Taxonomy
The Tribe Wrightieae is a member of the Subfamily Apocynoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Wrightieae:
- 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: Apocynoideae
- Tribe: Wrightieae
- Subfamily: Apocynoideae
- 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 Wrightieae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (4): Adenium · Nerium · Strophanthus · Wrightia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 456 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Wrightieae.
Genera
Adenium
Adenium is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. [more]
Nerium
Oleander (Nerium oleander), is a evergreen shrub or small tree in the dogbane family Apocynaceae. It is the only species currently classified in the genus Nerium. Other names include Adelfa, Alheli Extranjero, Baladre, Espirradeira, Flor de São Jose, Laurel de jardÃn, Laurel rosa, Laurier rose, Flourier rose, Olean, Aiwa, Rosa Francesca, Rosa Laurel, and Rose-bay (Inchem 2005), Araliya (in Sinhalese); in Chinese it is known as 夹竹桃 (jia zhu tao). The ancient city of Volubilis in North Africa took its name from the old Latin name for the flower. [more]
Strophanthus
Strophanthus is a genus of 35-40 species of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, native mainly to tropical Africa, extending to South Africa, with a few species in Asia, from southern India to the Philippines and southern China. The name (strophos anthos, "twisted cord flower") derives from the long twisted threadlike segments of the corolla, which in one species (S. preussii) attain a length of 30?35 cm. [more]
Wrightia
Wrightia is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family, native to tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. The species are all small trees or shrubs. [more]
At least 59 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Wrightia.
More info about the Genus Wrightia may be found here.
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