Wrightia

Wrightia

Taxobox
name = "Wrightia



image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Wrightia antidysenterica"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Gentianales
familia = Apocynaceae
genus = "Wrightia"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 23 species, including: "Wrightia antidysenterica" "Wrightia arborea" "Wrightia coccinea" "Wrightia laevis" "Wrightia lanceolata" "Wrightia lecomtei" "Wrightia pubescens" "Wrightia religiosa" "Wrightia sikkimensis" "Wrightia tinctoria" "Wrightia viridiflora"

"Wrightia" is a genus of 23 species of flowering plants in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family, native to tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. The species are all small trees or shrubs.

"Wrightia antidysenterica" is sometimes treated in a separate genus "Holarrhena", as "Holarrhena pubescens". It's been long known in Indian Ayurvedic tradition, and is called " kuţaja " in Sanskrit.


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