''Sarcolobus'' is a plant genus in the family
Apocynaceae
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, first described as a genus in 1810. It is native to
Southeast Asia
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,
New Guinea
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,
Australia, and certain islands of the Western
Pacific
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;Species][The Plant List, genus ''Sarcolobus'']
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# '' Sarcolobus brachystephanus'' (Schltr.) P.I.Forst.
Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis ''The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of A ...
- New Guinea
# '' Sarcolobus hullsii'' (F.Muell.
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ex Benth.
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) P.I.Forst.
Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis ''The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of A ...
- Australia
# '' Sarcolobus kaniensis'' (Schltr.) P.I.Forst.
Paul Irwin Forster (born 1961) is an Australian botanist. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Queensland in 2004 with his thesis ''The pursuit of plants : studies on the systematics, ecology and chemistry of the vascular flora of A ...
- New Guinea
# '' Sarcolobus secamonoides'' (Schltr.) P.I.Forst. - New Guinea
# '' Sarcolobus spanoghei'' Miq.
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811 – 23 January 1871) was a Dutch botanist, whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
Early life
Miquel was born in Neuenhaus and studied medicine at the University of Gro ...
- Java
# '' Sarcolobus sulphureus'' ( Volkens) Schltr.
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (16 October 1872 – 16 November 1925) was a German Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids.
He went on botanical expeditions in Africa, Indonesia, New Guinea, South Ame ...
- Caroline Islands in Micronesia
References
External links
Asclepiadoideae
Apocynaceae genera
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