''Ventilago'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...

s in the family

Rhamnaceae The Rhamnaceae are a large Family (biology), family of flowering plants, mostly trees, shrubs, and some vines, commonly called the buckthorn family. Rhamnaceae is included in the order Rosales. The family contains about 55 genera and 950 specie ...

. It includes about 40

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

found in the tropics of South and SE Asia,

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, with one species each in

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and

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. The roots of '' Ventilago neocaledonica'' are used in

Vanuatu Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (; ), is an island country in Melanesia located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, east o ...

to produce a crimson red dye (known in some local languages as ''labwa'' or ''labwe'' which is used to pattern traditional textiles.

Species

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'' currently includes:Plants of the World Online: ''Ventilago'' Gaertn. (retrieved 19 March 2021)
/ref> * '' Ventilago africana'' Exell * '' Ventilago borneensis'' Ridl. * '' Ventilago brunnea'' Merr. * '' Ventilago buxoides'' Baill. * '' Ventilago calyculata'' Tul. * '' Ventilago crenata'' Cahen & Utteridge * '' Ventilago cristata'' Pierre * '' Ventilago denticulata'' Willd. * '' Ventilago dichotoma'' (Blanco) Merr. * '' Ventilago diffusa'' (G.Don) Exell * '' Ventilago ecorollata'' (F.Muell.) F.Muell. * '' Ventilago elegans'' Hemsl. * '' Ventilago ferruginea'' Cahen & Utteridge * '' Ventilago flavovirens'' Cahen & Utteridge * '' Ventilago gamblei'' Suess. * '' Ventilago gladiata'' Pierre * '' Ventilago goughii'' Gamble * '' Ventilago harmandiana'' Pierre * '' Ventilago inaequilateralis'' Merr. & Chun * '' Ventilago kurzii'' Ridl. * '' Ventilago lanceolata'' Merr. * '' Ventilago laotica'' (Tardieu) J.F.Maxwell * '' Ventilago leiocarpa'' Benth. * '' Ventilago leptadenia'' Tul. * '' Ventilago lucens'' Miq. * '' Ventilago madraspatana'' Gaertn. * '' Ventilago maingayi'' M.A.Lawson * '' Ventilago malaccensis'' Ridl. * '' Ventilago microcarpa'' K.Schum. * '' Ventilago multinervia'' Merr. * '' Ventilago neocaledonica'' Schltr. * '' Ventilago nisidai'' Kaneh. * '' Ventilago palawanensis'' Elmer * '' Ventilago papuana'' Merr. & L.M.Perry * '' Ventilago pauciflora'' Pit. * '' Ventilago pseudocalyculata'' Guillaumin * '' Ventilago pubiflora'' W.D.Francis * '' Ventilago viminalis'' Hook. * '' Ventilago vitiensis'' A.Gray * '' Ventilago zhengdei'' G.S.Fan

References

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