Hunteria Myriantha
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''Hunteria'' is a genus of
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
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. Notable mem ...
first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to
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and to South and Southeast
Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometres, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. The continent, which ...
. ;Species # '' Hunteria ballayi'' Hua - Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon # '' Hunteria camerunensis'' K.Schum. ex Hallier f. - Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon # '' Hunteria congolana'' Pichon - Republic of Congo, Zaïre, Kenya # '' Hunteria densiflora'' Pichon - Zaïre # '' Hunteria ghanensis'' J.B.Hall & Leeuwenb. - Ivory Coast, Ghana # '' Hunteria hexaloba'' (Pichon) Omino - Gabon # '' Hunteria macrosiphon'' Omino - Republic of Congo, Gabon # '' Hunteria myriantha'' Omino - Zaïre # '' Hunteria oxyantha'' Omino - Republic of Congo, Zaïre, Gabon # ''
Hunteria simii ''Hunteria'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1824. It is native to Africa and to South and Southeast Asia Asia ( , ) is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It ...
'' (Stapf) H.Huber - Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone # ''
Hunteria umbellata ''Hunteria umbellata'' grows as either a shrub or small tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . Its flowers feature a white, creamy or pale yellow corolla. The fruit is yellow and smooth. Its habitat is forests from sea level to alti ...
'' (K.Schum) Hallier f. - W + C Africa from Senegal to Zaïre # '' Hunteria zeylanica'' (Retz.) Gardner ex Thwaites - Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, S China, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Indochina, W Malaysia, Sumatra


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