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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