Tenaris (plant)

Tenaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Genus: Tenaris
E. Mey.
Type species
Tenaris rubella
E. Mey.

Tenaris is a genus of plant in family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1838.[1] It is native to southern Africa.[2]

Species[3]
  1. Tenaris browniana S. Moore - Angola
  2. Tenaris chlorantha Schltr. - South Africa
  3. Tenaris filifolia (Schltr.) N.E. Br. - South Africa
  4. Tenaris schultzei (Schltr.) E. Phillips - Kalahari Desert
formerly included[3]
  1. Tenaris rubella, syn of Brachystelma rubellum
  2. Tenaris simulans, syn of Brachystelma rubellum
  3. Tenaris subaphylla, syn of Caralluma edulis

References

  1. Meyer, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich. 1838. Commentariorum de Plantis Africae Australioris 198.
  2. Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. M. Welman, E. Retief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. Van Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
  3. 1 2 The Plant List, genus Tenaris
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