''Xysmalobium'' is a
genus
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of
plant
Plants are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic eukaryotes of the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all curr ...
s in the
family
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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 1810. It is native to Africa.
[Brown, Robert. 1810. On the Asclepiadeae 27]
;Species
[The Plant List]
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;formerly included
moved to other genera ''(Asclepias
''Asclepias'' is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged. Most species are toxic to human ...
, Glossostelma, Gomphocarpus
''Gomphocarpus'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1810. It is widespread across much of Africa, with a few species naturalized in other regions.
;Species accepted
References
Apocynaceae gene ...
, Pachycarpus
''Pachycarpus'' is a genus of plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described in 1838. It is native to Africa.
;Species
;formerly included
moved to other genera ''(Asclepias, Gomphocarpus
''Gomphocarpus'' is a genus of plants in the famil ...
)''
References
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Apocynaceae genera
Medicinal plants
Asclepiadoideae