Cuviera

Cuviera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
clade:	Angiosperms
clade:	Eudicots
clade:	Asterids
Order:	Gentianales
Family:	Rubiaceae
Subfamily:	Ixoroideae
Tribe:	Vanguerieae
Genus:	Cuviera DC.
Type species
Cuviera acutiflora DC.

Cuviera is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family. It was originally described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1807 and is named after the french naturalist Georges Cuvier.^[1]

Distribution

The genus is found in tropical Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus is divided in two subgenera, C. subg. Cuviera and C. subg. Globulostylis.^[2]

Species

• Cuviera acutiflora DC.
• Cuviera bolo Aubrèv. & Pellegr.
• Cuviera calycosa Wernham
• Cuviera cuvieroides (Wernham) Onana
• Cuviera heisteriifolia Mildbr.
• Cuviera latior Wernham
• Cuviera ledermannii K.Krause
• Cuviera leniochlamys K.Schum.
• Cuviera letestui Pellegr.
• Cuviera longiflora Hiern
• Cuviera macroura K.Schum.
• Cuviera migeodii Verdc.
• Cuviera nigrescens (Elliott ex Oliv.) Wernham
• Cuviera physinodes K.Schum.
• Cuviera pierrei N.Hallé
• Cuviera schliebenii Verdc.
• Cuviera semseii Verdc.
• Cuviera subuliflora Benth.
• Cuviera talbotii (Wernham) Verdc.
• Cuviera tomentosa Verdc.
• Cuviera trilocularis Hiern
• Cuviera truncata Hutch. & Dalziel
• Cuviera uncinula N.Hallé
• Cuviera wernhamii Cheek

References

1. ^ de Candolle AP (1807). "Mémoire sur le Cuviera". Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 9: 216–222. 
2. ^ Verdcourt B (1987). "Notes on African Rubiaceae-Vanguerieae". Kew Bulletin 42: 123–199. 

External links

• World Checklist of Rubiaceae