Belonophora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Tropical Africa from Senegal east to Sudan and south to Angola.[1] It was described by Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1873.[2]
Species
- Belonophora coffeoides Hook.f.
- Belonophora coffeoides subsp. coffeoides - São Tomé (not seen since 1861, possibly extinct)
- Belonophora coffeoides subsp. hypoglauca (Welw. ex Hiern) S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Benin, Ghana, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo, Chad, Sudan, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
- Belonophora coriacea Hoyle - Nigeria, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo-Brazzaville, D.R.Congo
- Belonophora ongensis S.E.Dawson & Cheek - Cameroon, Gabon
- Belonophora talbotii (Wernham) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon
- Belonophora wernhamii Hutch. & Dalziel - Nigeria, Cameroon
References
- ^ POWO (2022). "Plants of the World Online". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
- ^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1873. Hooker's Icones Plantarum 12, t 1127, Belonophora coffeoides