Sacleuxia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Clade: | Lamiids |
Order: | Gentianales |
Family: | Apocynaceae |
Genus: | Sacleuxia Baill. |
Synonyms | |
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Sacleuxia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae.[1] It is also in the Periplocoideae subfamily.
It is native to Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Tropical Africa.[1]
The genus name of Sacleuxia is in honour of Charles Sacleux (1856–1943), a French Catholic missionary and linguist. He is known also as a botanist, having collected a herbarium of over 2000 plants in East Africa and Zanzibar.[2] It was first described and published in Hist. Pl. Vol.10 on page 265 in 1890.[1]
The genus is recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Research Service, but they note it could be a possible synonym of Cryptolepis R. Br.[3]
According to Kew;[1]