Nuxia

Nuxia
Nuxia floribunda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Stilbaceae
Genus:	Nuxia Comm. ex Lam. (1791)
Type species
Nuxia verticillata Lam.
Synonyms[1]
Lachnopylis Hochst. (1843)

Nuxia is a genus of plants in the family Stilbaceae described as a genus in 1791.^[2][3][4] It was formerly placed in the Loganiaceae and Buddlejaceae families.^[5]

Nuxia is native to Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and certain islands in the Indian Ocean.^[1]

Species

^[1]

• Nuxia allorgeorum Jovet - Madagascar
• Nuxia ambrensis Jovet - Madagascar
• Nuxia capitata Baker - Madagascar
• Nuxia congesta R.Br. ex Fresen. - Saudi Arabia, much of sub-Saharan Africa
• Nuxia coriacea Soler. - Madagascar
• Nuxia floribunda Benth. - E + S Africa from Uganda to Cape Prov
• Nuxia glomerulata (C.A.Sm.) Verd. - Gauteng, North West
• Nuxia gracilis Engl. - Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West
• Nuxia involucrata Aug.DC. - Madagascar
• Nuxia isaloensis Jovet - Madagascar
• Nuxia oppositifolia (Hochst.) Benth. - Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Madagascar, E + C + S Africa from Eritrea to KwaZulu-Natal
• Nuxia pachyphylla Baker - Madagascar
• Nuxia pseudodentata Gilg - Comoros
• Nuxia sphaerocephala Baker - Madagascar
• Nuxia verticillata Lam. - Mauritius, Réunion

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. 1791. Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique Botanique 1:295-296. description in Latin
3. Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de. 1791. Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique Botanique plate 71. line drawing as illustration (at lower left)
4. Tropicos, Nuxia Comm. ex Lam.
5. Burring, Jan-Hakon (August 2004). "Nuxia floribunda Benth". PlantZAfrica. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, SANBI. Retrieved 1 July 2015.

External links

• http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Stilbaceae/Nuxia/