''Rothmannia'' is a
genus
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of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants t ...
s in the
family
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Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules a ...
. It was described in 1776 and is named for
Göran Rothman Göran (Georg) Rothman (30 November 1739, in Husebybruk, Småland, Sweden – 3 December 1778, in Stockholm), was a Swedish naturalist, physician and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
His father, Johan Stensson Rothman, was a teacher of Logic ...
(1739–1778) by
Thunberg – both were pupils of
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generally organized in many-flowered inflorescences, solitary flowers are also found in this genus. The reduction of the number of flowers per inflorescence is often invertedly proportionate to the size of the flowers, which explains the large solitary flowers of some ''Rothmannia''.
Distribution and species
The genus originally had wide distribution, but is now restricted to species found in tropical and southern Africa:
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Rothmannia annae
''Rothmannia annae'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to the Seychelles. It is found in its natural state only on Aride Island, where its habitat is protected by Island Conservation Society The Island Conservation S ...
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(E.P. Wright) Keay
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Rothmannia capensis''
Thunb.
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Rothmannia ebamutensis''
Sonké
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Rothmannia engleriana''
(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Keay
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Rothmannia fischeri
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Bullock ex Oberm.
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Rothmannia globosa
''Rothmannia globosa'' is a small but highly decorative South African tree of the family Rubiaceae. It occurs in evergreen forest and along forest margins in the Eastern Cape and north to Limpopo Province and Eswatini.
Bark is greyish-brown wit ...
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( Hochst.) Keay
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Rothmannia hispida
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
''
(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Fagerl.
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Rothmannia jollyana
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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N. Hallé
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Rothmannia lateriflora
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Keay
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Rothmannia libisa
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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N. Hallé
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Rothmannia liebrechtsiana
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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( De Wild. & T. Durand) Keay
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Rothmannia longiflora
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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Salisb.
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Rothmannia lujae
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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( De Wild.) Keay
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Rothmannia macrocarpa
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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( Hiern) Keay
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Rothmannia macrosiphon
''Rothmannia macrosiphon'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa wi ...
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(K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Bridson
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Rothmannia manganjae
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generally org ...
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( Hiern) Keay
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Rothmannia mayumbensis
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generall ...
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(R.D. Good) Keay
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Rothmannia munsae
''Rothmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described in 1776 and is named for Göran Rothman (1739–1778) by Thunberg – both were pupils of Linnaeus.
Description
Although Rubiaceae flowers are generally org ...
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( Schweinf. ex Hiern) E.M.A. Petit
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Rothmannia octomera''
( Hook.) Fagerl.
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Rothmannia ravae''
(Chiov.
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) Bridson
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Rothmannia talbotii''
(Wernham) Keay
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Rothmannia urcelliformis''
( Hiern) Bullock ex Robyns
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Rothmannia whitfieldii''
(Lindl.
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Early years
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) Dandy
Asian species moved to other genera
The species found in western Indian Ocean, southern China to Indo-China and New Guinea are now placed in other genera, especially ''
Ridsdalea
''Ridsdalea'' is an Asian genus of plants in the family Rubiaceae; it was named after Dr. Colin Ernest Ridsdale (1944–2017), who was an English botanist and Specialist in tropical plants and Rubiaceae family. The type species is '' Ridsdalea g ...
:
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* ''R. attopevensis'' (Pit.) Bremek.
* ''R. daweishanensis'' Y.M. Shui & W.H. Chen
* '' R. eucodon'' (K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Bremek.
* ''R. kampucheana'' Tirveng.
* ''R. kuchingensis'' ( W.W.Sm.) K.M. Wong and ''R. malayana'' K.M. Wong are synonyms of '' Ridsdalea grandis'' (Korth.) J.T.Pereira
* ''R. macromera'' ( Lauterb. & K.Schum.
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the ''Deutsc ...
) Fagerl.
* ''R. merrillii'' (Elmer) J.T. Pereira & Ridsdale
* ''R. pulcherrima'' ( Kurz) Tirveng.
* ''R. schoemannii'' ( Teijsm. & Binn.) Tirveng.
* ''R. sootepensis'' (Craib) Bremek.
* ''R. thailandica'' Tirveng.
* ''R. uranthera'' (C.E.C. Fisch.) Tirveng.
* ''R. venalis'' Bremek.
* ''R. vidalii'' Bremek.
* ''R. vietnamensis'' Tirveng.
* ''R. wittii'' (Craib) Bremek.
''Rothmannia macrophylla'' (Hook.f.
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) Bremek. is a synonym of '' Singaporandia macrophylla'' (Hook.f.) K.M.Wong
References
External links
''Rothmannia'' in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2703581
Rubiaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot