''Sacleuxia'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s in the

family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...

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 ...

. It is also in the

Periplocoideae Periplocoideae is a subfamily of the dogbane plant family, Apocynaceae. It was not divided into tribes as of 2014. Genera In 2014, the subfamily was circumscribed to contain the following genera: *''Atherandra'' Decne. *'' Baroniella'' Costanti ...

subfamily. It is native to Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Tropical Africa. The genus name of ''Sacleuxia'' is in honour of

Charles Sacleux Charles Joseph Sacleux (1856–1943) was 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. Life He was born on 5 July 1856 at Enquin in norther ...

(1856–1943), a French Catholic missionary and

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingui ...

. He is known also as a botanist, having collected a herbarium of over 2000 plants in East Africa and

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islan ...

. It was first described and published in Hist. Pl. Vol.10 on page 265 in 1890. The genus is recognized by the

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and the

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, but they note it could be a possible synonym of '' Cryptolepis''

Known species

According to Kew;

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q6116681 Apocynaceae genera Periplocoideae Plants described in 1890 Flora of Kenya Flora of Tanzania Taxa named by Henri Ernest Baillon