Emicocarpus is a species of plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1900.[2][3] It contains only one known species, Emicocarpus fissifolius, native to tropical Africa.[4]

Emicocarpus

Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Eustegieae
Genus: Emicocarpus
K.Schum. & Schltr.
Species:
E. fissifolius
Binomial name
Emicocarpus fissifolius
K.Schum. & Schltr.

References

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  1. ^ Matimele, H.A.; Raimondo, D.; Bandeira, S.; Burrows, J.E.; Darbyshire, I.; Massingue, A.O.; Timberlake, J. (2016). "Emicocarpus fissifolius. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T85955108A85955412". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T85955108A85955412.en. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  2. ^ Schumann, Karl Moritz & Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1900. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 29. (Beibl. 66): 21.
  3. ^ Tropicos, Emicocarpus
  4. ^ The International Plant Names Index