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''Genianthus'' is a genus of plants in the family
Apocynaceae Apocynaceae (from ''Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison Members of the ...
, first described as a genus in 1883. It is native to southern China, the
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, and
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. ;SpeciesThe Plant List, genus ''Genianthus''
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q8963760 Secamonoideae Apocynaceae genera Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker