Orbea (plant)

Genus of flowering plants

For other uses, see Orbea (disambiguation).

Orbea

Orbea schweinfurthii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Gentianales
Family:  | Apocynaceae
Subfamily:  | Asclepiadoideae
Tribe:  | Ceropegieae
Genus:  | Orbea
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Synonyms[1]

* Angolluma R.Munster
* Diplocyatha N.E.Br.
* Orbeanthus L.C.Leach
* Orbeopsis L.C.Leach
* Pachycymbium L.C.Leach
* Podanthes Haw.
* Stapeliopsis E.Phillips
* Stultitia E.Phillips

Orbea is a genus of flowering plants of the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1812.[2] It is native to Africa[3][4] and the Arabian Peninsula.

Species

Species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of February 2023:[1]

* Orbea abayensis (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns \- Ethiopia
* Orbea albocastanea (Marloth) Bruyns \- Great Namaqualand in Namibia
* Orbea araysiana (Lavranos & Bilaidi) Bruyns
* Orbea baldratii (A.C.White & B.Sloane) Bruyns \- Eritrea
* Orbea carnosa (Stent) Bruyns \- Limpopo, Mpumalanga
* Orbea caudata (N.E.Br.) Bruyns
* Orbea chrysostephana (Deflers) Bruyns
* Orbea ciliata (Thunb.) L.C.Leach \- South Africa
* Orbea circes (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns
* Orbea conjuncta (A.C.White & B.Sloane) Bruyns
* Orbea cooperi (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach \- South Africa
* Orbea cucullata (Plowes) Meve
* Orbea decaisneana (Lem.) Bruyns \- Senegal
* Orbea deflersiana (Lavranos) Bruyns
* Orbea denboefii (Lavranos) Bruyns \- Kenya
* Orbea distincta (E.A.Bruce) Bruyns \- Tanzania
* Orbea dummeri (N.E.Br.) Bruyns \- Uganda, Ethiopia
* Orbea fenestrata (Plowes) Meve
* Orbea gemugofana (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns
* Orbea gerstneri (Letty) Bruyns \- KwaZulu-Natal
* Orbea gilbertii (Plowes) Bruyns
* Orbea halipedicola L.C.Leach \- Mozambique
* Orbea hardyi (R.A.Dyer) Bruyns
* Orbea huernioides (P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns
* Orbea huillensis (Hiern) Bruyns \- tropical Africa
* Orbea knobelii (E.Phillips) Bruyns \- Botswana
* Orbea laikipiensis (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns
* Orbea laticorona (M.G.Gilbert) Bruyns
* Orbea longidens (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach \- Mozambique
* Orbea lugardii (N.E.Br.) Bruyns
* Orbea luntii (N.E.Br.) Bruyns
* Orbea lutea (N.E.Br.) Bruyns \- South Africa
* Orbea maculata (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach \- tropical Africa
* Orbea mcloughlinii (I.Verd.) L.C.Leach
* Orbea melanantha (Schltr.) Bruyns \- South Africa
* Orbea miscella (N.E.Br.) Meve
* Orbea namaquensis (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach \- South Africa, Namibia
* Orbea nardii Raffaelli, Mosti & Tardelli
* Orbea paradoxa (I.Verd.) L.C.Leach \- KwaZulu-Natal
* Orbea parviloba (Bruyns) Meve
* Orbea pulchella (Masson) L.C.Leach \- South Africa
* Orbea rogersii (L.Bolus) Bruyns
* Orbea sacculata (N.E.Br.) Bruyns
* Orbea schweinfurthii (A.Berger) Bruyns \- tropical Africa
* Orbea semitubiflora (L.E.Newton) Bruyns
* Orbea semota (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach \- Tanzania
* Orbea sprengeri (E.Dammann & Sprenger) Bruyns
* Orbea subterranea (E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns
* Orbea taitica Bruyns \- Kenya
* Orbea tapscottii (I.Verd.) L.C.Leach \- Botswana
* Orbea tubiformis (E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns
* Orbea umbracula (M.D.Hend.) L.C.Leach \- Zimbabwe
* Orbea valida (N.E.Br.) Bruyns \- Zimbabwe
* Orbea variegata (L.) Haw. \- South Africa
* Orbea verrucosa (Masson) L.C.Leach \- South Africa
* Orbea vibratilis (E.A.Bruce & P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns
* Orbea wilsonii (P.R.O.Bally) Bruyns
* Orbea wissmannii (O.Schwartz) Bruyns
* Orbea woodii (N.E.Br.) L.C.Leach \- KwaZulu-Natal

## References[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orbea.

1. ^ a b "Orbea Haw". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2023. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
2. ^ Haworth, Adrian Hardy. 1812. Synopsis plantarum succulentarum 37.
3. ^ 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).
4. ^ Leach, Leslie Charles. 1975. Kirkia 10(1): 289-291.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q162376
* Wikispecies: Orbea
* APDB: 193209
* APNI: 170882
* EoL: 5338920
* FloraBase: 22686
* FoAO2: Orbea
* GBIF: 7150315
* GRIN: 8515
* iNaturalist: 372389
* IPNI: 3544-1
* IRMNG: 1331256
* ITIS: 893778
* NCBI: 141496
* NZOR: c8e3b3d3-421e-4345-94d9-14793a88765d
* Open Tree of Life: 702168
* PLANTS: ORBEA
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3544-1
* Tropicos: 40032736
* WFO: wfo-4000027007

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